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Rural Schools’ Crumbling Infrastructure Was a Health Threat Even Before the Pandemic

Montana Reservations

In the rural counties that serve majority Black, brown and Indigenous children, efforts to make classrooms Covid-safe collide with a backlog of inequities reaching back to Jim Crow.

 

Parents had to worry about the safety of their school children long before Covid-19 became a problem. It’s time to invest in education to address these disparities, starting with the pandemic relief package.

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