Rebecca Klar of The Hill writes:

Children of color will be disproportionately affected by school reopenings amid the coronavirus pandemic if  additional resources are not in place, former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Richard Besser said Sunday. 

“If we’re not intentional about making sure that doesn’t happen it will happen,” Besser, the president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and a pediatrician,  said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” 

Besser said death rates for Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans “far surpasses their proportion of the population.”…

“In low income communities schools have been under-invested for generations,” he added.  “Without additional resources, we will see children of color, black and brown children, disproportionately affected as schools start to reopen.”