⁍ Biden on Friday released a ‘roadmap’ for reopening schools safely in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
⁍ He called on Congress to pass roughly $34 billion in emergency funding to ensure schools have the necessary resources to reopen safely.
⁍ Biden’s blueprint comes as schools across the nation are grappling with their reopening plans amid the pandemic.

– “Donald Trump may have waved the white flag and given up, but the rest of us can’t do that.” That’s the message from Joe Biden, who on Friday released a “roadmap” for keeping schools open in the wake of the coronavirus, Politico reports. According to the Hill, Biden’s plan calls on Congress to pass $34 billion in emergency funding to ensure schools have the resources they need to reopen safely. It also calls on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide schools with guidelines on reopening safely. “We had a window to get this right. And, Trump blew it,” Politico quotes Biden as saying in a video accompanying his plan. “Forcing educators and students back into a classroom in areas where the infection rate is going up or remaining very high is just plain dangerous.” Biden’s plan calls for schools to be open “based on science,’ circumstances within the community, and “with the safety of students and educators in mind.” According to the Hill, Trump has called for schools to reopen.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/17/world/coronavirus-newsletter-07-17-20-intl/index.html