In Tuesday’s press briefing, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki walked back President Biden’s pledge to reopen schools within 100 days. Psaki announced the new goal is to have "teaching at least one day a week in the majority of schools by day 100."
That’s a dramatic shift from what Biden was promising just a few weeks ago. In December, Biden made the sweeping pledge that “my team will work to see that the majority of our schools can be open by the end of my first 100 days,” suggesting an appetite to show leadership on the issue. But on his first day in office, Biden walked back that goal to include only K-8 schools, not high schools. And then on Tuesday, Psaki narrowed it much further, stipulating that a school could be considered “open” if it offered only one day of in-person instruction per week, and that 51 percent of schools would constitute a meaningful “majority.”
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