'It's our job to listen to students who are telling us that our curriculum does not reflect [students of color] or their experiences.'
"My role as an elected leader is to think about the future of Latinx students," Cobián said."How can we support our Latinx and Black students instead of calling the police? The police should be viewed as having to go to the emergency room, right? If we really want to be thoughtful about how we support students, we need to think about preventative measures."
"COVID-19 has shown us that the internet is not a luxury," she said."It needs to be a right. It needs to be something that everyone has access to. And if you have three or four students who are in a household who are supposed to be doing remote learning, and you're on the most basic, affordable internet package, you don't have the bandwidth to be able to do your schoolwork.
Given the devastating financial hardships millions of Americans are facing because of COVID-19, many young adults are considering dropping out of college so they can work to help their families. Others aren't enrolling in the first place to avoid student loan debt and costly tuition fees. As the first person to go to college in her family, Cobián knows the importance of getting a higher education.
Cobián is currently doing research and connecting with various resources to ensure her constituents finish college."I've been working with a policy organization to get some research going to identify how many Latino students are not showing up to campus in the fall as a result of the pandemic," she explained."My goal is to identify what policy solutions are available to us at the district and state level.
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