Canal Alliance staff member Michael Gomez, second from right, back row, strikes a pose with UP! students in a chemistry class in fall 2019. (Photo courtesy of Canal Alliance)

In the course of five months, California schools had to switch gears to a completely online education, and disparities in internet access and use are being highlighted in socioeconomically and racially segregated places like Marin County.

Some communities that are heavily populated with Latinx people, many of whom are essential workers, live without much access to the internet at all, underscoring the divide  between such communities and more affluent, largely white parts of the county.

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