As parents begin thinking of sending their kids back to school, there are concerns minority families across Minnesota are at a greater disadvantage.
As parents begin thinking of sending their kids back to school..
There are concerns minority families across minnesota are at a greater disadvantage.
Kimt news three's jessica bringe joins us live from john marshall high school with what hurdles the rochester diversity council says minority families are facing.
Jessica.
Live amy?
"* families will remember that at the end of last school year ?
"* distance learning was put in place.
Emptying out schools like here at john marshall.
A minnesoa department of education survey shows a majority of families had a bad experience with it and want schools to resume in?*- person classes this fall.
However ?
"* more than 80?
"* percent of respondents were white and of the minority families who did respond ?
"* a majority said they did not feel comfortbale sending their students back to in?
"*person classes.
The rochester diversity council says before the pandemic minority families were already more likely to experience homelessness..
Face poverity..
And not have access to broadband.
Now covid?
"*19 is widening the gap even further.
If we can look within our neighborhoods , within our circle of influence, and do everything we can as individuals to include everyone that we can as individuals to include everyone in the conversations about school safety and the conversations about education in the coming school year we're going to reduce fear about 22?
"* percent of rochester's school district is made up of students of color.
Live in rochester?
"* jessica bringe thank you jessica.
While u?
"*s residents of all races have died from covid?
"*19..
Latino and african americans have been three times as likely to be infected compared to their white neighbors and nearly twice as likely
From birth to death, Black people face systemic inequality in the United States more than 150 years after slavery was abolished...