February 4, 2021 With psuedo-science spearheaded by teachers unions favored by the Biden administration over the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) January recommendation to fully re-open America’s schools, eight Republican senators want to get students back inside the classroom. On Wednesday, Feb. 3, Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) introduced the Put Students First Act of 2021. “Now that leading health experts at the CDC are recommending that America’s schools be reopened as soon as possible if precautions are taken, teachers unions are fighting to stay out of the classroom,” Rubio said in a statement. “Instead, they want to hold our students hostage for more federal funding despite Congress already having provided tens of billions of dollars for public K-12 schools. There is no substitute for in-person learning, and now the science is confirming that it can be done safely.”