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When setting goals, it’s important not to lower the bar. Yet that’s exactly what the Biden administration has done with school reopenings.
When asked last week about President Joe Biden’s “100-day plan” for reopening schools, press secretary Jen Psaki said, “His goal that he set is to have the majority of schools, so more than 50%, open by Day 100 of his presidency, and that means some teaching in classrooms.”
“So at least one day a week, hopefully it’s more,” she went on to explain.
With limited testing and incomplete data, questions linger over COVID-19 in schools
Experts lack data on how the coronavirus is moving among K-12 students back in school for in-person instruction. Written By: C.S. Hagen | ×
Patrons walk in for free COVID-19 testing at the former Thomas Edison school at 1110 S. 14th St. in Moorhead. David Samson / The Forum
FARGO Amongst all the data and research on COVID-19, there s still the question of how much the coronavirus is spreading in schools now that many students are back in crowded classrooms, hallways and cafeterias.
No one seems to have a clear answer yet, but incomplete data, including studies from Brown University, reports by JAMA Pediatrics, and most recently by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suggest school infection rates are lower than community spread and that the benefits of in-person education outweigh the pandemic dangers.