Des Moines Public Schools custodian Joel Cruz cleans a teacher's desk in a classroom at Brubaker Elementary School, Wednesday, July 8, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa.

Considering Racial Inequities in the Coronavirus School Year

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 10, 2020

Jessica Gould, WNYC education reporter, comes on for another week of evolving school reopening plans. We're also joined by Mark Winston Griffith, executive director of the Brooklyn Movement Center and co-host of the podcast School Colors and Dr. Uché Blackstock, emergency medicine physician, founder & CEO of Advancing Health Equities and a Yahoo News medical contributor as we consider the latest plans through the lens of racial equity here in the country's most segregated school system. 

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