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For Farah Despeignes, the choice of whether to send her children back to New York City classrooms as the coronavirus pandemic raged on last fall was no choice at all. Despeignes, a Black mother of two, watched in despair as her Bronx neighborhood was devastated by Covid last spring.

Despeignes, an elected parent leader on the local school board who has taught at several colleges. Even as more districts reopen their buildings and President Biden joins the chorus of those saying schools can safely resume in-person education, hundreds of thousands of Black parents say they are not ready to send their children back.

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That reflects both the disproportionately harsh consequences the virus has visited on nonwhite Americans and the profound lack of trust that Black families have in school districts, a longstanding phenomenon exacerbated by the pandemic. It also points to a major dilemma: School closures have hit the mental health and academic achievement of nonwhite children the hardest, but many of the families that education leaders have said need in-person education the most are most wary of Reeport.

That is shifting the reopening debate in real time.

In New York City, about 12, more white children have returned to classrooms than Black studentsthough Black children make up a larger share of the overall district. In Oakland, Calif.

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And Black families in WashingtonNashvilleDallas and other districts also indicated they would keep their children learning at home at higher rates than white families. And multiple studies, including a new C. Education experts and Black parents say decades of racism, institutionalized segregation and mistreatment of Black children, as well as severe underinvestment in school buildings, have left Black communities to doubt that school districts are being upfront about the risks.

Biden wants to ramp up virus testing and vaccinations, while pushing Congress for billions of dollars to help schools reopen safely. He has promised that racial equity would be a cornerstone of his coronavirus response. But the trust gap is not limited to education ; many Black Americans are similarly skeptical of the medical establishment and are thus more likely than white people to express wariness about being vaccinated. Carpenter said that as Black communities across the country Ther people dying disproportionately — she knows five people who have died of the coronavirus, most recently a go here of five, including a three-week-old baby — plans are not enough.

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Though children have largely been spared by the coronavirus, federal data released last fall showed that those who have died or developed life-threatening complications have predominantly been children of color. That trend has continued this year. Carpenter said.]