Education

Bottoms and other Democrats weighed in with their concerns.

"While we do need to lean forward and try to open our schools because it's important to children, we need to prevent outbreaks from happening in those schools."

"He has made matters worse from the start. Delay, denial, 'it's a hoax', 'it will go away magically,' 'it's a miracle' and all the rest."

DeVos and Trump have influenced more discussions about children's ability to spread the virus.

"Students should be going back to school because the effect on a child we know."

The poll shows concerns parents are facing.

Johnson is firing back with accusations against DeVos.

"The spread of COVID-19 that will result from the unsafe reopening of schools."

"If I'm elected president, our students and educators are going to have all the tools and resources they need to succeed, to get us through COVID-19, to build the strong, ...

The European Union began to allow non-essential travel from a limited number of countries last month.

"We've been trying to find every way to create new child care and to build it from scratch, honestly, because we're having to create something that didn't exist before on ...

Pressley issued a scathing message to DeVos.

"The emergency persists, yet the government's policy has suddenly and drastically changed, throwing amici's preparations into disarray and causing significant harm and turmoil."

"We all want our children to go back to school, teachers do, parents do, and children do but they must go back safely."

"In fact, we want to see schools open and have been committed to ensuring the resources are there to do that."

"No, we don’t want our children to take risks to go to school."

"It would be personally very disappointing to me, and I know my agency, if we saw that individuals were using these guidelines as a rationale for not reopening our schools."

"We have to do this right."

"We're very much going to put pressure on governors and everybody else to open the schools."

"Active students currently in the United States enrolled in such programs must depart the country or take other measures."