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Hawaii has now sunk below California for last place in in-person instruction.

Joe Bidens First 100 Days: What Did He Promise and What Did He Deliver? On 4/29/21 at 6:00 AM EDT President Joe Biden has largely kept a laser-like focus on combating the coronavirus pandemic and promoting his economic recovery package as he nears the 100-day mark in office, while setting aside or delaying dozens of promises he made on the campaign trail. Thursday marks the milestone, which often seen as a critical point in any presidents first term and shows what priorities became the administ...

Growing anger against Biden administration’s mandate for standardized tests during pandemic Last month, President Biden’s Acting Assistant Education Secretary Ian Rosenblum sent a letter to state education administrators instructing them that standardized tests had to be administered to students in some form this spring, summer or fall. Rosenblum—whose previous job was executive director of the Education Trust-New York, a pro-standardized testing and pro-business organization—said state...

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis railed against Democrats’ $1.9 trillion COVID spending bill Friday as a pork-stuffed redistribution project to bail out blue state governors’ mismanagement at the expense of working people in red states. “They are actually rewarding the states that have the highest unemployment rates. So if you locked down, if you destroyed your own economy through your own policies, you are getting a windfall,” DeSantis said on Fox News as his state hosted the annua...

Major US school districts reopen despite spread of more contagious and lethal COVID-19 variants Across the US, numerous school districts began reopening Monday in a reckless move that will exacerbate the spread of COVID-19. Over the past month and, in particular, following the February 10 betrayal by the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), the corporate media, both big business parties and the teachers unions have conspired to send millions of children into classrooms at the most dangerous stage of ...

With a halt in the decline of COVID-19 cases in the US, CDC director warns “the virus is not done with us” On Friday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, remarked at the White House briefing on the COVID pandemic, “Things are tenuous. Now is not the time to relax restrictions.” These comments were made in reference to the leveling of declines in new cases of COVID-19, which has public health officials extremely concerned. Since February 20,...

Is there a more dreadful example of the political elites in the Democratic Party believing they are superior to middle-class Americans than their approach to opening our public schools?

Covid-19 case rates among children track much more consistently with overall case rates in a state than with trends in in-person learning in K-12 schools, according to a CNN analysis of state-level data.

Parents are condemning the politicization of school reopenings simply because "Trump said open schools, so we must keep them closed at all costs."

CDC director says guidance is "free from political meddling."