{"id":122477,"date":"2021-02-09T17:05:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T22:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=122477"},"modified":"2021-02-09T17:12:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T22:12:25","slug":"white-house-walks-back-promise-to-open-schools-in-100-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-walks-back-promise-to-open-schools-in-100-days\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Walks Back Promise to Open Schools in 100 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-walks-back-promise-to-open-schools-in-100-days%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=122477&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1230841855.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The White House on Tuesday qualified its promise to reopen schools in President Joe Biden\u2019s first 100 days in office, saying the administration wants &#8220;some&#8221; in-person learning &#8220;at least one day a week.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When <em>Axios<\/em> reporter Hans Nichols pressed White House press secretary Jen Psaki&nbsp;on Biden\u2019s definition of opening schools, she defined &#8220;in-person teaching&#8221; as &#8220;teaching at least one day a week&#8221; in most schools.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Biden Administration<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>&#8220;His goal that he set is to have the majority of schools\u2014so more than 50 percent\u2014open by day 100 of his presidency, and that means some teaching in classrooms,&#8221; Psaki said. &#8220;Teaching at least one day a week in the majority of schools by day 100.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Biden\u2019s 100-day agenda included prioritizing the reopening of America\u2019s 13,000 school districts during the coronavirus pandemic despite resistance from teachers&#8217; unions. Psaki claimed the White House is still waiting on full CDC guidelines to be &#8220;put out publicly and concluded&#8221; before determining where to direct resources for school districts such as rapid testing.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The White House <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/white-house-undermines-cdc-on-school-reopenings\/\">distanced<\/a> itself from CDC director Rochelle Walensky last week after she said that vaccinating teachers is not required to safely reopen schools for face-to-face learning. Psaki claimed Walensky had spoken &#8220;in her personal capacity&#8221; and insisted the White House wait for further guidance.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While many of the country\u2019s largest teachers\u2019 unions<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/news\/2021\/02\/teachers-unions-biden-school-repopening\"><span>backed<\/span><\/a> <span>Biden during his 2020 presidential run\u2014and teachers broke donation<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/news\/2020\/09\/educators-break-records-920\/\"><span>records<\/span><\/a> <span>to support the president\u2014they have led the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/chicago-teachers-union-refuses-plan-to-reopen-schools\/\">resistance<\/a> to return to the classroom.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/virginia-teachers-union-students-must-be-vaccinated-before-schools-reopen\/\"><span>Many<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/virginia-teachers-union-demands-online-only-learning-through-august-2021\/\"><span>unions<\/span><\/a> <span>have demanded that all teachers receive the vaccine before teaching students in person and have claimed without evidence that returning to the classroom is unsafe. An American Academy of Pediatrics study from January found that transmission of the virus in schools is &#8220;extremely rare.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House on Tuesday qualified its promise to reopen schools in President Joe Biden\u2019s first 100 days in office, saying the administration wants &#8220;some&#8221; in-person learning &#8220;at least one &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893024,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3702,3653,3797,6055,6054,3765],"class_list":["post-122477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-back","tag-house","tag-open","tag-promise","tag-walks","tag-white"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}