“This amendment would have prohibited schools from gaining critical resources to implement public health protocols,” Murray’s office said in a statement to PolitiFact Missouri.
‘And as a result, this amendment would make it much harder for schools to reopen to personal education. The best way to ensure that our schools can reopen as soon as possible is to provide schools with the necessary resources. , not to impose uniform mandates from Washington on them. ‘
Murray’s team also said vaccines are only one piece to safely return to personal learning.
“The reopening of schools also means that schools must provide the necessary resources to implement public health protocols, including effective physical distance, constant wear, ventilation, COVID-19 testing, contact detection and more,” the statement said.
The bill passed by the Senate last week included the resources in the $ 1.9 billion COVID-19 bill. The bill allocates $ 128 billion for elementary and secondary schools, including money to support remedial education over time. Only 5% of the money for local schools will come in the 2021 financial year.
Blunt’s team showed us his most recent comments on the matter. In these remarks, Blunt emphasized the importance of getting children back to school.
Our verdict
Blunt said he had proposed an “amendment to the budget bill that would help get children back into school after teachers were vaccinated” and that “every Democratic Senate voted against it.”
This leaves out an important detail: the amendment threatened to withhold assistance from schools that do not re-learn personally.
Blunt put the Democrats’ opposition to his amendment in a close light, and it seemed like they were opposed to getting kids back in school when they were really opposed to his punitive approach. The COVID-19 bill passed by Democrats included funding to help schools.
We judge this statement half true.