![]() ![]() Nonetheless, these young women expressed a duty to advocate for justice when they believe conditions at school are unfair. ![]() In a 2018 study by published by LDF, for example, Black girls in Baltimore city schools reported that they are routinely told to be polite and quiet and to not “make a big deal out of things” at school. Yet, even in the face of pervasive racial bias, the unrelenting commitment of many young Black women to speak out about injustice in their schools continues. Educators are already predicting that the existing academic achievement gap will become more entrenched as distance learning continues, due to the digital divide and other existing economic and educational disparities. ![]() Like high-poverty schools, racially-segregated schools are likely to have high levels of teacher turnover, inadequate facilities, and fewer classroom resources. Black students today are six times more likely than white students to attend a high-poverty school, and nearly 75% of Black K-12 students attend racially segregated schools. COVID-19 has exposed fundamental educational inequities in public education that still have not been fully addressed over 66 years after the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Unfortunately, racial bias in schools did not end with Brown v. ![]()
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