SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — The storm that battered the San Diego-Tijuana region on Monday left 92 schools south of the border in bad need of repairs.
Alfredo Nuño García, the city’s secretary of education, said it will take at least 34 million pesos (roughly $2.1 million) to fix the issues at the schools.
“We were affected in different ways, but the majority of the repairs center around flood damage and sewage spills,” he said. “We also had a few walls collapse and mudslides.”
A few days ago, Baja California Gov. Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda said it was only 55 schools that were damaged by the storm, but Nuño García said the number has since climbed to 92.
“We now have 92 schools reporting damage; some are minor some are not,” he said.
In Tijuana, there are 1,531 public schools, according to Nuño García.
He said seven schools were initially forced to shut down as a result of the damage and have been offering online instruction to students.
“We just had four of those reopen, only three more remain closed as the cleanup continues,” Nuño García said. “There was a lot of mud, some had a 4-inch layer of mud on the ground that had to be removed.”
The governor is pledging 73 million pesos to help make repairs and clean up the damaged schools in Tijuana.
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