Chapter Appendix B - What Went Right
Section Department of Education
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Department of Education
The Department of Education established an innovative website to help provide assistance to those schools that had accepted students displaced by Hurricane Katrina and the flood. At this site schools list the needs of these students (e.g. books, clothes, school supplies, computers - even counseling) and donors list what they can provide. Schools and donors have access to one another's information, and are then encouraged to contact each other directly, and hundreds of matches have been made.62 The Department of Education also worked with the Defense Logistics Agency, the General Services Administration, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to pool federal resources and quickly provide thousands of pieces of furniture, computers and other equipment from the federal surplus to schools in need.63
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