{"id":122834,"date":"2021-02-10T01:31:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T06:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=122834"},"modified":"2021-02-10T08:51:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T13:51:14","slug":"biden-aims-to-reopen-over-half-of-schools-just-at-least-one-day-a-week-by-100-day-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-aims-to-reopen-over-half-of-schools-just-at-least-one-day-a-week-by-100-day-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Aims to Reopen Over Half of Schools Just \u2018At Least One Day a Week\u2019 By 100-Day Goal"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fbiden-aims-to-reopen-over-half-of-schools-just-at-least-one-day-a-week-by-100-day-goal%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=122834&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--><p>White House Press Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-jen-psaki\">Jen Psaki<\/a> said Tuesday that President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> aims to reopen over half of schools nationwide for \u201csome teaching\u201d in person \u201cat least one day a week\u201d by day 100 of his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as parents across America in areas without in-person teaching are desperate for help amid mixed messaging on the issue from the Biden administration, which has left children falling behind academically under lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s administration has taken a hands-off approach to school reopenings after vowing during his campaign that he\u2019d see schools resume in-person classes if elected. In December, Biden said he aimed to ensure \u201ca majority of our schools\u201d are open within 100 days.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2021\/02\/09\/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-february-9-2021\/\">told reporters during a press briefing<\/a> that all schools won\u2019t necessarily fully reopen by day 100 of Biden\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis goal that he set is to have the majority of schools\u2014so, more than 50 percent\u2014open by day 100 of his presidency.\u00a0And that means some teaching in classrooms. So, at least one day a week,\u201d she said. \u201cHopefully, it\u2019s more.\u00a0And obviously, it is as much as is safe in each school and local district.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House Press Secretary noted that the Biden administration is waiting for official guidance on school reopenings to be released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The agency\u2019s director said on Feb. 5 that it will be released in the coming week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur focus really, at this point in time, is waiting for the CDC guidelines to come out and give schools across the country, school districts across the country the first medical and scientific recommendations and guidelines that have been given from the federal level,\u201d Psaki said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd obviously, once those are put out publicly and concluded, we will look for ways to work with states to ensure that schools are getting the resources they need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3691876\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/psaki-jen-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a news briefing at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, on Feb. 9, 2021. (Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Officials have recently said Congress must pass Biden\u2019s $1.9 trillion relief plan, which includes $130 billion \u201cto support schools in safely reopening,\u201d in order for more schools to reopen.<\/p>\n<p>CDC officials earlier released <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2775875\">a summary<\/a> of recent studies that looked at the effect of reopenings on transmission of COVID-19, the disease caused by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/giving-the-right-name-to-the-virus-causing-a-worldwide-pandemic-2_3277200.html\">CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Research both inside and outside the United States shows \u201clittle evidence that schools have contributed meaningfully to increased community transmission,\u201d the officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Arguments about the risk of spreading COVID-19 in schools rely on research of asymptomatic spread of the virus. But the research remains scant. An analysis of four such studies concluded that the risk is <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2774102\">between zero and 5 percent<\/a>. But that analysis only pertained to viral spread within a household. A recent paper that estimated nearly 60 percent of cases resulted from asymptomatic spread was <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2774707?utm_source=For_The_Media&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=ftm_links&amp;utm_term=010721\">based on assumptions<\/a> regarding symptom onset and infectiousness duration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/02\/10\/CDC-walensky-1200x813.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium wp-image-3691878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" alt=\"Rochelle Walensky\" width=\"600\" height=\"407\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/CDC-walensky-600x407-1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3691878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/CDC-walensky-600x407-1.jpg\" alt=\"Rochelle Walensky\" width=\"600\" height=\"407\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Rochelle Walensky, then to-be director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speaks during a news conference in Wilmington, Delaware, on Dec. 8, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque\/Reuters)<\/p>\n<p>Teachers don\u2019t necessarily have to be vaccinated in order for schools to safely reopen, according to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also want to be clear that there is increasing data to suggest that schools can safely reopen and that safe reopening does not suggest that teachers need to be vaccinated in order to reopen safely,\u201d she said during a Feb. 3 press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>But Psaki later told reporters that Walensky was speaking \u201cin her personal capacity\u201d and that the official CDC guidance on school reopening has yet to come.<\/p>\n<p>One argument against school reopening is the spread of new mutations of the virus, for example, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ccp-virus\">CCP virus<\/a> strain that was first identified in the United Kingdom in December. Initial data indicate that this more-transmissible strain is also more virulent, or harmful, but \u201cthat needs to be confirmed,\u201d said Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), during a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/G2BVbl9ixUA?t=2898\">Feb. 8 briefing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with CBS over the weekend, Biden said that \u201cit\u2019s time for schools to reopen safely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to have fewer people in the classroom, you have to have ventilation systems that have been reworked,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Petr Svab and Zachary Stieber contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday that President Joe Biden aims to reopen over half of schools nationwide for \u201csome teaching\u201d in person \u201cat least one day a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893051,"comment_status":"closed","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":[6094,3620,5433,3972,4200,3735],"class_list":["post-122834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-aims","tag-biden","tag-half","tag-over","tag-reopen","tag-schools"],"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\/122834","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=122834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}