The COVID-19 pandemic has posed an unprecedented education equity crisis in California. Since mid-March, almost all California schools and colleges have closed in response to the pandemic, requiring education leaders and administrators to stretch their resources to create or improve distance learning plans, support students' basic needs, and maintain other essential services for students and families. This Equity Alert calls attention to several key issues that school and college leaders will encounter in the coming days, weeks, and months. It provides recommendations to help leaders move forward with an equity lens so that this crisis does not accelerate opportunity gaps that already existed for students of color, students from low-income families, English learners, and students with disabilities. [For a related Equity Alert, see "Education Equity in Crisis: Grading Policies Rooted in Equity" (ED607551).]