Joe Biden said during the first presidential debate in Cleveland Tuesday night that President Donald Trump has done “nothing to help small businesses” during the coronavirus pandemic.
Washington, DC, again changed the criteria for lifting additional coronavirus-related restrictions, making it difficult to reopen.
In an audio clip of a reported conference call between Los Angeles County Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer and school officials, Ferrer is heard saying K-12 schools within the county would not be opening until after the election in November.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) admitted Tuesday evening that she had gone to a hair salon in San Francisco that was closed under coronavirus restrictions, but claimed she did not know it was wrong, blaming the business for the violation.
The office of Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) confirmed late Wednesday students and employees of the state’s K-12 schools who refuse to wear masks in the buildings may be faced with a misdemeanor charge.
The Iowa State Education Association (ISEA) filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Gov. Kim Reynolds (R), seeking to block her requirement for at least 50 percent of teaching to occur in person within school buildings throughout the state.
There is “very little evidence” the coronavirus is spreading in U.K. schools, a study, described as one of the largest in the world, found.
Teachers’ unions and socialist groups say they will resist school openings unless their safety and social justice funding demands are met.
Robert Redfield of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) testified on Friday that this fall, the United States must reopen schools that were shut down to stem the coronavirus spread because failing to do so would be detrimental and even deadly for the development and health of students K thru 12.
Dr. Anthony Fauci told teachers’ union members they will be “part of the experiment” as the country learns more about the coronavirus.
The nation’s largest teachers’ union says many of its members are preparing for a return to school with “living wills and life insurance.”
The director of the CDC tweeted Friday that it is “critically important for public health to open schools this fall.”
Parents are pushing past politics and creating their own learning environments for their children — many of which involve home education.
Joe Biden tweeted it’s “just plain dangerous” for schools to reopen, a statement that goes against the “science” as explained by a number of doctors.
Liberty University filed a lawsuit charging that the New York Times falsely reported on the school’s actions in the wake of the coronavirus.
A Texas homeschooling coalition says it saw an “immediate” uptick in interest from new families after the state announced schools would reopen.
Sharp spikes in new coronavirus cases have prompted at least 28 states and New York City to roll back or pause their reopening efforts.
Controversy is raging in Orange County, California, after the county’s school board voted overwhelmingly this week to reopen schools — but the county’s Democratic congressional delegation criticized the decision, and schools were uncertain.
Dr. Scott Atlas said Pelosi’s claim school openings will expose children to big risks is “ludicrous” and amounts to “hysteria.”
The New Mexico Republican Party lambasted Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) on the Breitbart News Saturday radio show for exacerbating the state’s economic crisis by, among other things, halting indoor restaurant service as part of changes to the reopening timeline that will go into effect Monday.
The man who spearheaded Common Core and called parents opposed to it as “white suburban moms” now says he backs “local control” of education.
During an interview with the Hill on Thursday, White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci stated that he doesn’t think we need to revert back to “an extreme” of shutting back down, but that hard-hit states should start “pausing
Southern states are experiencing a surge in Chinese coronavirus cases because they opened too fast, Dr. Deborah Birx, a top White House health official, declared on Tuesday, noting that the U.S. has the “capacity” to stem the spread of the disease.
Washington’s planning guide for reopening schools says one approach to phase in face-to-face instruction prioritizes “students of color.”
Joe Biden told members of the National Education Association’s (NEA) representative assembly that the longer schools remain closed due to the coronavirus, the more low-income “students of color” will suffer learning losses.
On Friday’s “MSNBC Live,” Orange County, FL Mayor Jerry Demings (D) stated that the demonstrations over the past month are partially to blame for the recent increases in coronavirus cases that the area has seen. Demings also said that the
During a town hall on MSNBC on Tuesday, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) said that Georgia is “paying for” “opening up so aggressively,” with an increase in coronavirus cases, and that because of rates of other health conditions, Atlanta
A significant number of states will reopen their colleges and universities by the fall, while K-12 schools will follow suit on a jurisdiction by jurisdiction basis, the nation’s top disease official told lawmakers this week.
