President Biden’s new goal of reopening schools – to offer more than 50% of public schools at least one day of personal lessons a week – lies behind the country’s public schools.
According to data from Burbio, a digital platform that traces school data from across the country, 66 percent of students in kindergarten up to the 12th grade already attend traditional personal classes five days a week, or follow a hybrid schedule – which means they attend it at least one day a week or more.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki surprised reporters earlier this week by saying schools would be considered “open” as long as they teach at least one day a week – a goal the U.S. has already largely achieved.
Psaki tried to soften the landing of the White House’s announcement on Wednesday by telling reporters that the president’s ideal goal is “that all schools should reopen, to stay open, to be open five days a week, and that children learn . “
“This is what we focus on,” Psaki said. “It’s just a goal for 100 days.”
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Psaki claims that the “majority” of schools across the country are not under an ‘open’ status – although only 34 percent of students in the United States still attend ‘virtual’ lessons without the option to appear in person.
“It really depends, it differs from school district to school district,” she said on Wednesday.
Although the White House’s goal of reopening ‘schools’ is questionable, a reality check is being pursued in urban areas such as Chicago and San Francisco, where teachers’ unions are returning to the classroom.
The city of San Francisco has filed a lawsuit against the Board of Education and the San Francisco Unified School District in a last-ditch effort to reopen schools across the city.
“The Board of Education and the school district have had more than ten months to draw up a concrete plan to get these children back into school,” City Attorney Dennis Herrera said in a statement after the lawsuit last week. “So far, they have earned an F.”
“It’s not a plan to make a plan,” he adds.
The city claimed the school violated the state’s constitution by providing access to public schools and discriminating against low-income students, who could not afford to open one of the city’s more than 110 private schools. , to attend.
Chicago, for its part, officially avoided a strike on Wednesday after the Chicago Teachers Union and Mayor Lori Lightfoot finally reached an agreement to get teachers back safely into the classrooms, the Chicago Tribune first reported.
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Swarms of teachers initially rejected Lightfoot’s attempt at an ultimatum, saying that if they were not in their classrooms on Monday, they would be considered absent without leave and that it would be terminated. hands.
The mayor did not go through with her threat and an agreement was reached on Wednesday, which means that teachers will be in the classrooms again tomorrow.
CDC director Rochelle Walensky told reporters last week that the vaccine was not a requirement to get teachers back in the classroom.
“There is increasing data to suggest that schools can reopen safely and that safe reopening does not indicate that teachers should be vaccinated,” Walensky told a news conference. “Vaccination of teachers is not a prerequisite for the safe reopening of schools.”
The CDC is expected to release additional details to schools this week on how to reopen safely and return children to the classroom for personal training.
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But even if more teachers agree to return to their classrooms without first getting a vaccine, dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned in January that it may not achieve the goal of reopening schools across the country. happens “due to unforeseen circumstances.