Top administration officials have continued to insist that schools should open, given concerns about educational and social depredation caused by having children learn at home.
WASHINGTON — Throughout the fall, the Biden administration touted its ability to open schools for in-person instruction in the midst of a pandemic. “Now over 99 percent of our schools are open,”But the Omicron wave of the coronavirus has challenged that promise, leading schools to close across the country.
Administration officials told Yahoo News that they remained committed to keeping schools open safely for full-time, in-person learning. They alsothat 99 percent of secondary school students were going to school in-person full-time, a figure Biden and other administration officials are fond of reciting. But that data comes from Dec. 15, and the situation has changed rapidly since then, especially as districts confronted the realities of reopening after the long holiday break.
Schools in Newark, N.J., will conduct remote instruction for the next two weeks because so many educators have tested positive there. “COVID-19 continues to be a brutal, relentless, and ruthless virus that rears its ugly head at inopportune times,” Newark’s school superintendent Roger LeónEducational loss and social disruption aside, a fresh round of closures poses a risk to Democrats, who are already fearing dismal congressional midterm prospects.
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