This blog post is part of LPI’s Learning in the Time of COVID-19 blog series, which explores evidence-based and equity-focused strategies and investments to address the crisis and build long-term systems capacity. Drs. Hunter Quartz and Saunders outline how community schools across the nation rose up to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic because they were designed to be these cornerstones. Alongside the inspiring stories of distributing meals, social services, and technology to families in need right now, community schools are also enabled students to understand and confront the structural inequalities they encounter each day—the very inequalities that are causing Black and Latino Californians to die of the coronavirus at disproportionate rates.

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Quartz, K.H. & Saunders, M. (2020). Community-based learning in the time of COVID-19. Palo Alto: Learning Policy Institute. https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/blog/community-based-learning-time-covid-19