Leslie T. Fenwick, PhD, is dean in residence at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and dean emerita of the Howard University School of Education. She is also a former Harvard University visiting scholar in education and a PK-12 teacher and administrator.

The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated harmful educational inequalities in the preK-12 public education system. The nation’s poorest students, Black and Latino students, and our disabled students have been the most negatively impacted by school closings necessitated by the pandemic. Black students in high poverty schools have been especially hard hit because of the racialized, historic and ongoing disinvestment in the education of Black children and youth.

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