Republicans hope to blame Democrats for the slow reopening of schools as a way to win back suburban voters in the 2022 midterms. Individual school districts also expressed their uneasiness with the new guidelines. The union representing Los Angeles Unified School District, which has shuttered its schools for the past year, suggested that the new CDC guidelines should simply be ignored, calling the change "flawed" and "abrupt." "The one thing I hope people know is that the CDC is acting completely independently and by the science." But CDC officials clearly still have a good amount of convincing to do before teachers' unions agree that the science is sound.

Source: CNN March 21, 2021 04:07 UTC