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At the risk of being repetitive, the COVID-19 pandemic has been disproportionately devastating for the Latinx community in Los Angeles and across the country.
The latest confirmation of this tragic truism can be found in my colleague Paloma Esquivel’s report on how the progress of English learners in California’s schools has been endangered by the pandemic shutdown.
“It’s an educational pandemic,” Martha Hernandez, the director of a nonprofit that advocates for English learners, told The Times. “We already had issues of an achievement gap, opportunity gaps, lack of access, lack of equity. Now that’s just exacerbated, and it will be a huge challenge. It will have a big impact for many, many years.”