WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has chosen a side in the debate over reopening schools, forcefully pushing school systems to completely reopen this fall, On a call with governors today, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos blasted districts with partial reopening plans and said schools need to be fully operational this fall. And during a day of programming at the White House, HHS Secretary Alex Azar said “nobody should hide behind our CDC’s guidance as a way to not reopen schools.”

Later in the afternoon, Trump insisted that “everybody” wants schools to reopen. “The moms want it. The dads want it. The kids want it. It’s time to do it,” the president said before touting the economy, mortality rates and testing in the U.S. “We’re very much going to put pressure on governors and everybody else to open the schools,” the president said.

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