'Going back to school presents the biggest risk for the spread of the coronavirus,' said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. 'They ignore science and they ignore governance to make this happen.'
"But we do have to do that safely," he said."And the first thing we need to do is we need to get the virus under control. When we get the virus more under control, then we can really think about how we put children back in the classroom."
"This is appalling," she said."The president and his administration are messing with the health of our children. We all want our children to go back to school. Teachers do. Parents do. And children do. But they must go back safely. In Florida, Miami-Dade County Public Schools are"going to obviously do our very best in our community considering where the health data currently is," Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said on NBC's"Meet the Press."
"We're the size of five Pentagons," he said."You would need another five Pentagons of space to be able to safely accommodate all of the students in Fairfax County Public Schools."Dr. Tom Inglesby, director of the Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said on"Fox News Sunday" that issuing an ultimatum for schools to open is wrongheaded.
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