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Students at Rudsdale Newcomer High School in Oakland, before the pandemic shut down in-person learning. The school was designed for recent immigrant students, and Rudsdale has seen an uptick in enrollment since it moved online, giving working students like Ana greater flexibility.
(Courtesy of Emma Batten Bowen)
When it’s time for class, 17-year-old Ana will put down her mop, switch off the vacuum or stop scrubbing the toilet, then ask to borrow her boss’s car keys.
Outside whichever house she’s cleaning that day, she’ll get into the parked car. After opening her Chromebook, she ll connect her hotspot and join her high school classmates on Zoom.