Opportunity Gap
“Ursula DeWitt, a parent organizer with parent-centered community organization Black Parallel School Board (BPSB), which has supported Black parents and students in Sacramento County since 2008, understands this educational inequity as a lack of opportunity and resources.
‘At BPSB we say ‘opportunity gap’ because we believe that all children can achieve if given the opportunity,’ said DeWitt, 51. ‘We talked about the opportunity gap before the pandemic and now things are even worse.’
A recent report by the Census Bureau reveals just how bad it has gotten. Black households have been hit harder by the pandemic when compared to their white counterparts — even when accounting for pre-pandemic socioeconomic disparities.”