The Centers for Disease Control and Avoidance will deteriorate standards for reopening schools that President Donald Trump stated were too strict, Vice President Mike Pence stated Wednesday.
” The president said today, we just don’t want the guidance to be too tough,” Pence said throughout a press rundown at the Department of Education. “That’s the reason next week, the CDC is going to be issuing a brand-new set of tools, 5 various documents that will be offering even more clearness on the guidance moving forward.”
The CDC is under clear pressure from the White Home to change its existing nonbinding standards for schools, which say, to name a few things, that teachers and students must wear cloth masks which desks need to be “at least 6 feet apart when practical.” Trump tweeted earlier Wednesday that he disagreed with the CDC “on their very difficult & pricey standards for opening schools” and “will be meeting with them !!!” He likewise threatened to cut off financing to schools if they did not resume quickly enough, although just Congress has the authority to do so.
At numerous points in the rundown, CDC Director Robert Redfield downplayed his agency’s suggestions by worrying that they “are not requirements” and are “not suggested to be prescriptive.”
Ultimately, it’s not a matter of if schools need to open– it refers how.
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos
The president has framed continued closures as an indication of political opposition and has actually downplayed the continuous threat of the coronavirus, even as the U.S. hit 3 million cases on Wednesday.
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