{"id":2201467,"date":"2024-03-18T19:50:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T23:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-republicans-were-right-about-pandemic-school-policy-democrats-were-wrong\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T19:56:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T23:56:58","slug":"new-york-times-republicans-were-right-about-pandemic-school-policy-democrats-were-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-republicans-were-right-about-pandemic-school-policy-democrats-were-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Times: GOP&#8217;s Pandemic School Stance Validated, Dems Missteps Acknowledged"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fnew-york-times-republicans-were-right-about-pandemic-school-policy-democrats-were-wrong%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=2201467&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--><h2>Reflecting \u2063on School Closures: A New York \u200dTimes Analysis<\/h2>\n<p>Recent reflections in\u2064 <em>The New York Times<\/em> bring new \u200binsights into past decisions, suggesting a \u2062Republican \u200bforesight regarding the impact of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fire-fauci-new-study-finds-closing-schools-in-response-to-covid-19-delayed-herd-immunity-and-will-increase-overall-deaths\/\" title=\"FIRE FAUCI: New Study Finds Closing Schools In Response to COVID-19 Delayed Herd Immunity and Will Increase Overall Deaths\">school closures<\/a>\u200c during the \u200dpandemic, while Democrats\u200b may\u2062 have miscalculated \u2064the consequences.<\/p>\n<p>The enlightening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/18\/upshot\/pandemic-school-closures-data.html\">report<\/a> reveals \u200cthat <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-overwhelming-support-for-school-choice-in-n-c\/\" title=\"Poll: Overwhelming support for school choice in N.C.\">extended school closures<\/a> did not significantly stop the spread of Covid,&#8221;<\/strong> yet inflicted \u2064&#8221;large and \u200blong-lasting&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/la-teachers-union-president-there-is-no-such-thing-as-learning-loss\/\" title=\"LA Teachers\u2019 Union President: \u2018There Is No Such Thing as Learning Loss\u2019\">educational setbacks<\/a> on children.<\/p>\n<h3>Evaluating Remote Learning&#8217;s Effects<\/h3>\n<p>Highlighted in the analysis is a \u2063stark verdict:\u200c remote\u2064 learning significantly hindered educational \u200bprogress, \u2063a\u200d finding consistent\u2063 across all income \u200clevels. State and local data, corroborated by analytical efforts from\u2064 the Times, \u200cHarvard, and Stanford, linked virtual\u2062 classrooms to palpable declines in student\u2064 test scores, echoed by a similar study encompassing 10,000 schools.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThese academic \u2063losses pose \u2062substantial challenges to overcome, without\u2064 major interventions,\u201d the\u200b piece suggests. \u201cSpring 2023&#8217;s test scores demonstrate that students \u2062have not\u200c yet \u200drebounded \u200cfrom \u2064pandemic disruptions, with those most affected facing even wider\u2062 gaps.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Notably, students\u2062 within districts that experienced prolonged remote or hybrid models for the majority of the 2020-21 school year are \u2064still behind, nearly doubling the \u2063catch-up challenge compared to \u200bstudents in districts that resumed in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calif-gov-newsom-announces-2b-plan-to-reopen-schools-by-spring\/\" title=\"Calif. Gov. Newsom announces B plan to reopen schools by spring\">-person learning<\/a>\u2062 more promptly.<\/p>\n<h3>Revisiting Safety and Educational Priorities<\/h3>\n<p>Democrats have defended their \u2062cautious \u200bapproach during the pandemic as prioritizing \u2062&#8221;safety.&#8221; However, experts conversing with the Times identified convincing evidence that school closures had minimal impact on controlling the virus&#8217;s spread.<\/p>\n<p>The report suggests leniency towards the tough decions Democrats faced,\u200c yet highlights the lingering negative\u2064 effects of such policies \u2063on children&#8217;s education.<\/p>\n<h3>Pioneering the School Reopening\u200c Movement<\/h3>\n<p>Republican leaders like \u2064Florida Governor\u200b Ron DeSantis took a bold stance against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-blm-leader-promises-national-uprising-over-racist-vaccine-mandates-similar\/\" title=\"New York BLM Leader Promises National \u2018Uprising\u2019 Over \u2018Racist\u2019 Vaccine Mandates Similar\">heavy-handed restrictions<\/a>\u2062 of the era.\u200d In a proactive\u200c move, DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/local\/2020\/06\/11\/governor-hopes-florida-schools-will-reopen-for-summer-fall-semesters\/\">unveiled<\/a> plans\u2062 to reopen schools in \u2064late Spring 2020, advocating for a swift return to in-person learning.<\/p>\n<p>This analysis paints a nuanced picture of the complex \u2064decision-making during\u200d the pandemic \u2062and its influence on our education \u2064system. It invites readers and policymakers to contemplate the lessons\u2064 learned and to consider \u200bthe balance between\u2062 safeguarding our community&#8217;s health and ensuring the uninterrupted intellectual growth of our next generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times acknowledged GOP correctness and Democratic error in policies that sidelined kids during the pandemic, with experts now widely accepting the negative impacts of prolonged school closures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":2201468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2023\/10\/rdf-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2201467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2023\/10\/rdf-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201467","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\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2201467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2201468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2201467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2201467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2201467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}