Editorial: The unequal pace of school reopenings is exacerbating California's educational inequity (via latimesopinion)
of Santa Ana’s students are poor enough to qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. That’s four times the poverty rate of Irvine students. And low-income areas have more crowded housing conditions and more people who work at essential jobs, where they are more likely to be exposed to infection.
California has taken a cautious approach overall to reopening and has been rewarded with no signs of a related increase in COVID-19 cases, according to Mark Ghaly, the state’s secretary of health and human services. Properly handled, in-person learning appears much less dangerous to our health than we’d feared.
Still, it’s hard to see the scientific reasoning behind some of the county’s plans. In September, the Public Health Departmentthat schools could bring in limited numbers of English language learners and students with disabilities, regardless of age or grade level. Its heart was in the right place ― these are among the students who have been harmed the most by remote learning ― but that’s an educational decision, not a public health matter.
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