{"id":190486,"date":"2021-03-04T18:30:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T23:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=190486"},"modified":"2021-03-04T18:30:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T23:30:41","slug":"gop-senators-blast-biden-admin-on-school-reopening-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senators-blast-biden-admin-on-school-reopening-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP senators blast Biden admin. on school reopening efforts"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fgop-senators-blast-biden-admin-on-school-reopening-efforts%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=190486&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 id=\"attachment_2381981\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2381981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 3:20 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, March 4, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Senate Republicans came down on Democrats and their so-far stalled efforts to return children to the classroom. Talk has picked up in recent weeks of returning students to in-person learning as this was a major sticking point in Joe Biden\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoney is not the problem here; [the] will to get kids back to school is the problem,\u201d Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) stated. \u201cAnd every parent and every involved grandparent and every involved neighbor knows the kids need to be in school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the campaign trail, Biden promised to return kids to the classroom within the first 100 days of taking office. However,&nbsp;most learning remains at a distance from an actual school building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden, this is his report card, he deserves an F,\u201d Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s a well-deserved grade for him because he promised that he would have the schools open all across America within 100 days and he\u2019s failed. And we\u2019re halfway there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These comments came as the Senate geared up to consider the Biden administration\u2019s $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill, which includes nearly $130 billion for schools to ensure a safe return to the classroom. Senators, however, pointed to two rounds of coronavirus funding schools have already received and noted the new funding isn\u2019t even directly tied to schools reopening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you really look at it, it says that that school money is going to go out until the year 2028,\u201d Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said. \u201cThis is supposed to be an emergency bill. It is an emergency to get our schools and our students back to school and our schools reopened, but with this kind of overspending \u2014 way over the top appropriations to our schools \u2014 it\u2019s not what we need now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Education groups recently claimed that despite the federal funding to date, schools actually remain underfunded. They said they anticipate more costs they won\u2019t be able to meet without additional federal funds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels like extortion,\u201d Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) stated. \u201cIt feels like we have to pay off the teachers unions to get them to bless what we already know to be true, which is students can safely go back to the classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republicans called on targeted funding that would get schools back open and children back to in-person learning.<\/p>\n<p>According to recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/03\/02\/biden-launches-blitz-of-action-to-prod-schools-to-reopen-473054\">reports<\/a>, the Biden administration\u2019s Education Department is planning to hold a national summit in March, which will be aimed at school reopenings. Newly appointed Education Secretary Miguel Cardona also said the administration hopes to develop ways to make reopening \u201cas seamless as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>RELATED:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sen-marshall-mental-health-crisis-worse-than-covid\/\">Sen. Marshall: Mental Health Crisis Worse Than COVID<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo by Spencer Platt\/Getty Images) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 3:20 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, March 4, 2021 Senate Republicans came down on Democrats and their so-far stalled efforts to return children &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274808,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190486","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=190486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}