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Middle school in Galveston, Texas, not ready for students
On the day they were due back in new classrooms, students from Austin Middle School in Galveston, Texas, toured museums, watched a movie and bowled with school administrators. Austin Middle School teachers, on the other hand, spent Monday frantically piecing together classrooms in the building the district has spent $8.9 million renovating. The building was set to be finished in early August, but when that deadline was missed, students spent the first two weeks of the fall semester at a closed elementary school. Administrators had said Austin would be ready for students by Monday, but some classrooms were still without desks and cabinets.