FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Broward County students returned to school Monday morning, two weeks after Hurricane Wilma ripped through South Florida.

Wilma hit Oct. 24, causing billions of dollars in damage across the state and making many schools temporarily unusable. The state's largest school district, Miami-Dade County, reopened Thursday.

Florida Power & Light workers have been busy restoring electricity to schools and traffic lights so the county's 274,000 students could return.

And return they did -- to a few noticeable differences.

"It smells of paint and the boards are all gone," Cypress Bay High School student Katelyn Friewald said.

At Cypress Bay, construction workers had to repair 30 walls that were damaged when the roof collapsed because of heavy rain last week. In Pompano Beach, another high school's roof was damaged in a fire. Classes resumed there, but parts of the school where the fire occurred are off-limits to students.

The American Red Cross was at shelters distributing clothing to parents whose children had nothing clean to wear, and buses transported children from the shelters to their appropriate schools.

A spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Transportation said more than 900 of about 1,300 traffic signals in the county are still not working.

Another major worry is how the delay will affect preparation for the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, the standardized exam given to students that helps determine whether some advance to the next grade or graduate. The FCAT scores also are used to grade schools, and failing performances can ultimately lead to a school's closure.

Broward Superintendent Frank Till said the district planned to ask the state to push back the FCAT. The district is also finishing plans to make up the lost school days, he said.

Till admitted that every school in the district was not perfect, but said he is happy with the progress made.

"We had all of our key people working hard for the last two weeks to get to where we're at," Till said.

Gov. Jeb Bush last week waived a state law limiting class sizes for hurricane-affected districts, and granted waivers from the 180-day school year. Students who switch to a public school because of hurricane damage to a private school will also remain eligible for certain scholarships, the governor said.

Local 10's Alex Alvarez said that the Broward County Sheriff's Office assigned an extra 200 deputies to direct traffic at the 83 schools in its jurisdiction.

"We're out looking at our very busy roadways, making sure that they are not being obstructed by debris, making sure that they're clear and ready to go," BSO spokeswoman Liz Calzadilla said. "We're also checking those intersections that are currently being powered by generators to make sure that those generators are working, running and, of course, working properly."