{"id":302052,"date":"2021-03-24T17:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T21:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=302052"},"modified":"2021-03-24T17:00:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T21:00:35","slug":"minority-students-left-behind-as-white-house-teachers-unions-resist-reopening-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/minority-students-left-behind-as-white-house-teachers-unions-resist-reopening-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority Students Left Behind As White House, Teachers\u2019 Unions Resist Reopening Schools"},"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\">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%2Fminority-students-left-behind-as-white-house-teachers-unions-resist-reopening-schools%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=302052&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\/03\/fb_image-174.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>White students have returned to the classroom faster than their minority counterparts, worsening racial disparities in education as teachers&#8217; unions and the Biden administration drag their feet on reopening schools, according to a Department of Education study released Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Seventy-six percent of fourth- and eighth-grade students <a href=\"https:\/\/ies.ed.gov\/schoolsurvey\/\">are enrolled<\/a> in schools that offer some form of in-person learning.<\/span><span>&nbsp;But 58 percent of black students continue to learn at home, as do 56 percent of Hispanic students and 68 percent of Asian students. Just 27 percent of white students are still attending school remotely.<\/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 Coronavirus<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>The Biden administration pledged to reopen schools within the first 100 days of the president\u2019s term. It has since walked back that plan despite a scientific consensus that it is safe to resume in-person learning. Studies have shown that pandemic school closures have disproportionately <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/education\/when-covid-19-closed-schools-black-hispanic-poor-kids-took-n1249352\"><span>harmed<\/span><\/a><span> black and Latino students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The National Center for Education Statistics <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ies.ed.gov\/schoolsurvey\/\"><span>conducted<\/span><\/a><span> the National Assessment of Educational Progress as part of the Biden administration\u2019s push to reopen schools by April. While nearly <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ies.ed.gov\/schoolsurvey\/\"><span>half<\/span><\/a><span> of white students surveyed are learning in-person, only 33 percent of Hispanic students, 28 percent of black students, and 15 percent of Asian students have returned to the classroom.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Education secretary Miguel Cardona called the study &#8220;encouraging&#8221; but admitted the data reveal &#8220;critical gaps&#8221; to classroom learning access for students of color.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Today\u2019s findings \u2026 show encouraging early progress in states and communities\u2019 efforts to reopen schools safely and quickly,&#8221; Cardona said in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/news\/press-releases\/statement-us-secretary-education-miguel-cardona-regarding-naep-2021-school-survey?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\"><span>statement<\/span><\/a><span> on Wednesday. &#8220;While schools continue to show us what\u2019s possible as they work to open their doors \u2026 we know that we still have a lot of ground to go.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Teachers&#8217; unions in major U.S. cities have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/study-teachers-unions-associated-with-school-closures\/\"><span>pressured<\/span><\/a><span> districts to keep schools closed during the pandemic and have demanded their members receive priority access to the vaccine. CDC director Rochelle Walensky <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/cdc-teachers-can-go-back-to-school-without-vaccine\/\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> in February that vaccinating teachers &#8220;is not a prerequisite&#8221; for safely returning to the classroom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>White House press secretary Jen Psaki in February walked back the Biden administration\u2019s promise to reopen schools within 100 days, claiming the administration wanted &#8220;some&#8221; students in the classroom &#8220;at least one day a week.&#8221; On Wednesday, President Joe Biden <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/just-in-ahead-of-school-summit-biden-announces-delivery-of-81-billion-to-aid-states-in-reopening-classrooms-launch-of-national-summer-learning-enrichment-collaborative\/\"><span>released<\/span><\/a><span> $81 billion of the $122 billion earmarked for K-12 schools in the American Rescue Plan in an effort to expedite the reopening process.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n\t\t<!-- \/339474670\/Freebeacon\/InContent --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White students have returned to the classroom faster than their minority counterparts, worsening racial disparities in education as teachers&#8217; unions and the Biden administration drag their feet on reopening schools, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311092,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-174.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Minority Students Left Behind As White House, Teachers\u2019 Unions Resist Reopening Schools","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-174.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Minority Students Left Behind As White House, Teachers\u2019 Unions Resist Reopening Schools","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302052","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=302052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}