Low-Income Households Disproportionately Affected as Sacramento Schools Go Virtual

 It’s back to school but not back to class for Sacramento County.

A surge in coronavirus cases is forcing the Sacramento County Superintendent public health department to recommend all 13 school districts keep their campuses closed in the fall.

“I think distance-learning is really going to challenge the most vulnerable. It will take us years, decades, to make up this lost learning,” Cassandra Jennings, President and CEO of The Greater Sacramento Urban League (Sacramento, CA), said.

Jennings said some students are more at risk than others.

“Most of those from low-income communities and disproportionately black and brown students,” she said.

There are more than 250,000 K-12 students in Sacramento County, and of those students, more than 60% get free and reduced lunch. But in the Twin Rivers Unified School District, it’s much higher. Ninety percent of their students are considered low-income.

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