A Case Study Analysis of COVID-19's Impact on Educational Equity in Rural Pennsylvania School Districts

• In Event: Rural Leadership and Governance During Challenging Times and Change

Abstract

Using a mixed methods approach combining state-level data and local case studies, this research examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected educational inequities and district responses along fiscal, spatial, instructional, and racial/ethnic lines across rural Pennsylvania school districts. This work will inform educational equity policy as the pandemic subsides.

Authors

• Kai A. Schafft, Pennsylvania State University

• Annie Maselli, U.S. Department of Education

• Katharine E. Dulaney, Pennsylvania State University

• Laura E. Pirkle Howd, Pennsylvania State University

• Erica Frankenberg, Pennsylvania State University

• Ashley N. Patterson, Pennsylvania State University

• Matthew G. Kelly, Pennsylvania State University

• David A. Gamson, Pennsylvania State University