Six months into pandemic, educational inequalities likely to be wider for some students
“Six months ago, the first case of the coronavirus within Alabama’s borders sounded the highest alarm to the state’s top officials and causing schools to close through what ended up being the end of the school year. Since then, educators have scrambled to develop a plan to continue learning, while also worrying about food security and the safety of children sheltered away from their eyes. In impoverished and rural areas, they struggled to find solid solutions to inequalities that have existed and were only exasperated by the pandemic.”