White House officials and Democratic lawmakers have attempted in recent days to reframe their position on school reopening policies amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Democrats have argued that they always supported students returning to in-person instruction and that President Biden’s massive $1.9 trillion reconciliation package in March 2021 helped facilitate schools reopening nationwide, even though Republican-led states like Florida succeeded in returning students to classrooms well before the Biden stimulus package.
On Thursday, the National Center for Education Statistics released a report showing that, during the pandemic, American students’ reading proficiency dropped to a two-decade low and mathematics scores falling for the first time ever.
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