Biden Urges Governors To Reopen Schools At the End of His First 100 Days: ‘I Know It’s Going To Be Controversial’

President-elect Joe Biden is looking to governors across the United States to find a way to reopen schools “at the end of a hundred days” of his presidency.

“I’m going to ask — and I know it’s going to be controversial for some of you — but I’m going to ask that we’re going to be able to open schools at the end of a hundred days,” Biden said during a virtual discussion with a bipartisan group of roughly 30 governors on Wednesday, according to The Washington Post.

Biden noted that it will “take a lot of money, but we know how to do it.”

“If we have the money and the funding, we do everything from ventilation to more teachers, smaller class sizes, a whole range of things,” he said.

Biden’s renewed call to reopen schools amid the coronavirus pandemic comes after he laid out a five-step “roadmap” on reopening schools safely.

The plan includes: Getting the virus under control, setting “national safety guidelines” and empowering “local decision-making,” providing “emergency funding for public schools and child care providers,” “ensuring high-quality learning during the COVID-19 pandemic,” and “closing the COVID-19 educational equity gap.”

The Trump administration has also pushed for schools to reopen, as White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany