DeVos downplayed the coronavirus risk of reopening schools and repeated a threat to cut funding to schools that don’t fully resume in-person learning.
The president complained that his own public health officials’ safety guidelines are impractical and too expensive.
“We’re the size of five Pentagons — you would need another five Pentagons of space to be able to safely accommodate all of the students,” Scott Braband said on “State of the Union.”Congressional Democrats say Trump has no ability to defund schools that do not reopen five days a week, and instead urged the administration to approve funding to aid schools as part of a COVID-19 stimulus bill expected to come up for votes at the end of the month.
They also say they’ll oppose any attempt to give Trump the power to use such future aid to pressure schools to reopen, including by giving students funding to allow them to attend private school instead. School district leaders in Phoenix say reopening in August or September is unlikely because of currently high levels of the virus there, with positivity rates topping 20%, Mayor Kate Gallego said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
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