Haiti hopes to reopen school

Haitian education officials have begun assessing public and private schools in quake ravaged Port-au-Prince and other cities. They hope to have at least some educational centers reopened a week from Monday.

But educators know it will be an major challenge. The few schools that remain standing have become camps for people left homeless by the quake that killed some 200-thousand people. Aid groups and education officials estimate that 1.8 million children and 5,000 to 8,000 schools were affected by the quake. It is also unknown just how many teachers perished. Even before the disaster, Haiti lacked an effective education system. Only about 53 percent of its 9 million people were able to read and write.