The president again downplayed the severity of the current spike in coronavirus cases and insisted that schools must open in the fall.
Trump said the White House plans to pressure state governors and educators to reopen schools in the fall, despite soaring infection rates across the country.
Yet as September approaches, there are still few concrete plans in place on either the state or the federal level about how to open schools safely. "We're very much going to put pressure on the governors and the schools to reopen," Trump said at a White House event Tuesday on school reopenings. "Open your schools in the fall."
More than 50 million children attend school in the United States, and the near blanket closures of schools this spring forced millions of parents to become teachers overnight, often on top of holding down full-time jobs.
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