What Will It Take to Reopen Schools?

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Almost a year into the pandemic and the American education system remains severely disrupted. About half of children across the United States are not in school. The Biden administration has set a clear goal for restarting in-person instruction: reopening K-8 schools within 100 days of his inauguration. Is that ambitious target possible?

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0:25.6	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Babbaro.
0:33.0	This is a daily.
0:37.0	Today, the Biden administration is determined to quickly reopen America's public schools
0:47.6	for in-person learning.
0:49.8	To do that, it will have to convince teachers and their unions that returning to the
0:55.4	classroom is safe.
0:57.9	My colleague, Dana Goldstein, on whether that's likely to happen.
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