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04/05/2021 10:00 AM EDT
Editor’s Note: Welcome to Weekly Education: Coronavirus special edition. Each week, we will explore how the pandemic is reshaping and upending education as we know it across the country, from pre-K through grad school. We will explore the debates of the day, new challenges and talk to movers and shakers about whether changes ushered in now are here to stay.
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Yara Shahidi, Jennifer Garner, Edward James Olmos and Anthony Ramos are set to take part in the 90-minute virtual event looking at gaps in public education exacerbated by the COVID-19 epidemic: The summit is a call to action.
CAA announced on Monday that it will host a 90-minute virtual summit on March 18 focused on public education. Presented by the CAA Foundation and CAA Amplify, the agency’s diversity platform, the event will feature U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona as well as two former education secretaries Arne Duncan and Dr. John B. King (the president and CEO of The Education Trust).