ANDY CANALES

While both my parents, immigrants from El Salvador, provided me with the best they could, opportunities in the inner-city were limited. Fortunately, with the help of my parents, teachers, hard work, and some luck along the way, I was able to become the first one in my family to graduate from college. Education changed my life, and I want other children growing up in the same shoes I was once in to access this life-changing opportunity as well.

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The recent surge in COVID-19 makes it unlikely many kids will be able to return to schools in the Fall, businesses are closing and guardians are continuing to get laid off. I want to get our parents back to work by helping kids succeed during virtual learning. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal pulled us out of the Great Depression through an intense overhaul of American infrastructure. Today, we don’t need physical infrastructure – we need virtual infrastructure for our schools and socio-emotional infrastructure for our students. The New Deal in the time of COVID-19 should focus on investing in the hearts and minds of children.

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