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.

Click here to read The Galveston County Daily News article.