For all the rhetoric about the importance of in-person learning for K–12 students, policymakers have failed to mitigate the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on education and provide the necessary funding to state and local governments to make it safe to do so.
 
Watch the video, below, and listen to what Ivey Welshans, a teacher at Middle Years Alternative School in Philadelphia, shared with EPI about the lack of funding and resources communities are receiving to ensure the safety of our students and to address the vast divides "between the haves and the have nots."