Lily Eskelsen García, president of the National Education Association: “I represent 3 million teachers, lunch workers, bus drivers. Any one of my 3 million members is more qualified than Betsy DeVos to be talking about how to safely open schools.”
Dr. Zeke Emanuel, Vice Provost of Global Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania, and Lily Eskelsen Garcia, the president of the National Education Association, join Andrea Mitchell to discuss plans on reopening schools. Dr.
Emanuel says that it can be done safely, but needs a lower level of cases in the community combined with mitigation practices like masks and social distancing. Eskelsen Garcia criticizes the Trump administration's handling of the issue, saying that "they reopened schools and have no plan."
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