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After facing setbacks related to the coronavirus pandemic, several programs can continue to help Hispanic and Indigenous students stay on track toward high school graduation and enrolling at Southern .
Brian Lockwood was in his
first year as principal of V. H. Lassen Elementary School in south Phoenix, and nothing was as it should have been.
His school in south Phoenix was empty as the 300 students learned remotely. Lockwood worked with social worker Tiffany Hughes to get them what they needed.
Roosevelt school district officials parked school buses equipped with Wi-Fi in neighborhoods to boost Internet connectivity. Students without enough to eat could pick up food at school. If they couldn’t get there, someone would deliver.
Hughes asked students, “What do you need?” She got those items masks, soap, hand sanitizer, food and set up folding tables outside school, so families could pick them up.