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Following a recent spike of COVID-19 cases, Puerto Rico’s health secretary has announced that all public and private schools along the U.S. territory would close for two weeks. The closures will begin on April 12, which comes nearly a month after some 100 of the island’s 858 public schools were …

On Friday, the White House formally declared teachers as essential workers in an effort to encourage schools around the world for in-person learning. This comes after Trump’s administration’s aggressive campaign to pressure school districts to bring students back to school even after being potentially exposed. According to CNN, Mike Pence …

Donald Trump is calling for schools to open as soon as possible after Fox News host Steve Hilton cited studies that students cannot pass the virus to others on his show, The Next Revolution. Trump sent a late-night tweet tagging both Hilton and Fox News. “Schools in our country should …