{"id":124923,"date":"2021-02-11T17:15:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T22:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=124923"},"modified":"2021-02-11T17:27:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T22:27:13","slug":"psaki-says-white-house-lacks-data-on-reopening-schools-ignores-cdc-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-says-white-house-lacks-data-on-reopening-schools-ignores-cdc-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki Says White House \u2018Lacks Data\u2019 on Reopening Schools, Ignores CDC Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fpsaki-says-white-house-lacks-data-on-reopening-schools-ignores-cdc-study%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=124923&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 style=\"font-weight: 400\">White House press secretary Jen Psaki claimed a &#8220;lack of data&#8221; has kept the Biden administration from announcing a school reopening plan, ignoring growing scientific evidence that supports reopening K-12 schools.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The White House will await further guidance from the Centers for Disease Control before acting on President Joe Biden\u2019s promise to reopen schools in the first 100 days of his presidency, Psaki said. But the CDC indicated in January that K-12 schools could safely reopen if students wore masks and practiced other mitigation efforts like social distancing. Schools &#8220;rarely reported&#8221; outbreaks of coronavirus, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7004e3.htm?s_cid=mm7004e3_w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a>.<\/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<ul class=\"list-none p-0\">\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/psaki-says-white-house-lacks-data-on-reopening-schools-ignores-cdc-study\/\"><strong>Psaki Says White House \u2018Lacks Data&#8217; on Reopening Schools, Ignores CDC Study<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/top-democrats-urge-biden-to-keep-chicago-prosecutor-probing-corrupt-pols\/\"><strong>Top Democrats Urge Biden to Keep Chicago Prosecutor Probing Corrupt Pols<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/republican-leaders-slam-biden-for-not-calling-israeli-pm-netanyahu\/\"><strong>Republican Leaders Slam Biden for Not Calling Israeli PM Netanyahu<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;One of the challenges we have is that the data is not great as it relates to schools that are open or not open, how hybrid learning is impacting kids,&#8221; Psaki said. &#8220;The data and the lack of data or effective data is part of the problem.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The CDC is expected to release further guidance on how to safely reopen schools tomorrow.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Biden administration walked back its promise to reopen schools by the end of April earlier this week, saying the president wants &#8220;some&#8221; students learning in person &#8220;at least one day a week.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Psaki said the White House and Education Department will use CDC guidance as a &#8220;basis&#8221; for reopening schools, which have been shuttered for nearly a year due to the coronavirus pandemic. But t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">he White House<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/white-house-undermines-cdc-on-school-reopenings\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">undermined<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CDC director Rochelle Walensky earlier this week when Psaki claimed the nation\u2019s top infectious disease expert &#8220;spoke in her personal capacity&#8221; when she said that teachers need not receive the vaccine for schools to safely reopen.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A growing body of research shows that schools can safely reopen for face-to-face instruction. Recent studies have found that coronavirus transmissions rates in schools are &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/new-study-finds-covid-transmission-in-schools-is-extremely-rare\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">extremely rare<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8221; and that schools are<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/10\/schools-arent-superspreaders\/616669\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">not driving<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the spread of the virus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Remote learning has also &#8220;exacerbated long-standing educational disparities&#8221; and<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/education\/when-covid-19-closed-schools-black-hispanic-poor-kids-took-n1249352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">disproportionately<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">impacted students of color, a Northwest Evaluation Association study from November found.&nbsp; Other<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/namica.org\/blog\/impact-on-the-mental-health-of-students-during-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">research<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">has shown that distance learning and lack of social interaction during the pandemic has harmed students\u2019 mental health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teachers&#8217; unions across the United States have pushed to keep schools closed during the coronavirus pandemic. Teachers also set donation records during the 2020 presidential election, OpenSecrets<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/news\/2020\/09\/educators-break-records-920\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&nbsp;Ninety percent of those donations went to Democrats, with&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">President Biden receiving the bulk of them.<\/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>White House press secretary Jen Psaki claimed a &#8220;lack of data&#8221; has kept the Biden administration from announcing a school reopening plan, ignoring growing scientific evidence that supports reopening K-12 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893236,"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":[6441,3653,3810,4546,4005,3765],"class_list":["post-124923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-data","tag-house","tag-psaki","tag-reopening","tag-says","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\/124923","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=124923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}