When Silvia Tenezaca encounters obstacles thrown her way, she conquers them with grace.
She overcame a family tragedy and medical crisis, economic challenges, and a language barrier to complete her bachelor’s degree in nursing at Rutgers University‒Camden.
To escape poverty and a dearth of jobs in Ecuador, Tenezaca came to the United States in 2002 at the age of 21 to join family members in Brooklyn. Working at a dry cleaning business, she improved her English language skills by speaking to people at her job and by watching TV.
“My desire to attend college was stronger than any language barriers,” says Tenezaca, of Sicklerville.
The impact of COVID will be felt by urban schools for years | Opinion
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By Gloria Bonilla-Santiago
Racial disparities have been accentuated throughout the pandemic. Blacks and Latinos have been stricken, and, in too many cases, died from COVID-19 at higher rates than their white counterparts.
Meanwhile, educational equity, one thing that can narrow the gap between communities of color and their white counterparts, has been hampered considerably by the public health crisis. I see it in my majority-minority community of Camden, at the school I founded, LEAP Academy University Charter School.
Children from schools with mostly Black and Latino backgrounds have lost, on average, two more months of learning than students in white-majority schools this year, according to a study of standardized test scores by McKinsey & Company. Despite schools like ours returning periodically to our buildings and classrooms, our efforts have been undermined by the necessity of hybrid schedules, missing teachers and reduced classroom capacities.
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