“After seeing the Katrina anniversary coverage this week, it appears that few children in New Orleans can speak English either.”
This sentence implies that the children saw the coverage. The following would be clearer:
“Having seen the coverage ... I have the impression that...”
My daughter in law had a bilingual spanish teaching job in CA. She was smart and good, but she lost the job because they finally found a Hispanic to work instead. Of course she was fluent in Mexican and Spanish..but she was Anglo.
My son and daughter then moved overseas to teach.