Palm trees line a San Bernardino street that seemingly stretches to snow-capped peaks. (Chris Marshall/CNS)
(CN) From kitchen tables and rooms busy with the noise of restless children, the parents and grandparents of San Bernardino call in for another Zoom town hall meeting with school officials.
While students from across the country head back into classrooms for some of their first in-person lessons during the pandemic, San Bernardino City Unified School District is going to wait just a bit longer. The district of roughly 53,000 students serves a predominantly Latino and Black population. Roughly 10% of the student population is homeless according to available state data, 90% of the student body is socioeconomically disadvantaged and a large portion of the student body are immigrants who do not have easy access to health care.