Using federal pandemic emergency funds that will soon dissipate, schools and their broader communities could take six actions to advance racial equity, a McKinsey & Company report released Friday recommends.
Closing racial gaps for educational opportunities and achievement would improve social mobility for students of color and contribute to a higher national gross domestic product, the report said. In fact, had student achievement gaps of Black and Hispanic students been closed in 2009, the U.S. GDP in 2019 would have been $426 billion to $705 billion higher, according to McKinsey data.
