President Donald Trump is waging a pressure campaign against state and local governments.
earlier Wednesday that he disagreed with the CDC “on their very tough & expensive guidelines for opening schools” and “will be meeting with them!!!”to schools if they did not reopen quickly enough, although only Congress has the authority to do so.
Several school districts announcing their tentative reopening plans for the fall have suggested a combination of in-person instruction and “distancing learning” in order to abide by the recommendation that students stay 6 feet apart. New York City, for instance, has said students might physically attend classes only two or three days per week.
She conceded that reopening schools is inherently risky, but said “risk is involved in everything we do, from learning to ride a bike to riding a rocket into space and everything in between.”Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a White House coronavirus task force press briefing at the U.S. Department of Education on Wednesday. He said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will relax guidelines for reopening schools in the fall.
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