'Is it really fair, is it reasonable to compare the situation in countries that have 20 new cases in a day with a country that has 68,000 new cases in a day?' he asked.
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said Sunday there was no danger in sending children back to school amid theand stood by a threat to withhold federal funds from schools that do not resume in-person classes.told"Fox News Sunday
"Well, we're talking about schools and other countries' experiences with reopening schools. And it has been shown to be very successful," DeVos said. "Look, American investment in education is a promise to students and their families. If schools aren't going to reopen and not fulfill that promise, they shouldn't get the funds, and give it to the families to decide to go to a school that is going to meet that promise," DeVos replied.Trump said that the guidelines on reopening schools that were issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were"very tough,""expensive" and"impractical.
Dr. Tom Inglesby, director of the Center for Health Security of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told Wallace that"kids are at much lower risk of serious infections than adults, but not zero." "I think guiding schools and helping schools with financial support and encouraging schools to follow CDC guidance and state health department guidance is the right way to go," he said.
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