The Coronavirus Outbreak Back to School Updated Aug. 12, 2020 The latest highlights as the first students return to U.S. schools. A Georgia school district that reopened last week has quarantined more than 900 students and staff members. Judd Deere, a White House spokesman, said unions and Democratic leaders were seizing upon schools as a way to attack the president. “President’s Trump’s goal of seeing schools open was never about politics, it was about the health, growth and learning of our nation’s children, and it has not backfired,” Mr. Deere said in a statement. “Not only does the president want to see schools open safely, but so do teachers, students, parents and health professionals.”Perhaps nowhere was Mr. Trump’s impact on the debate more clear than in Chicago.

Source: New York Times August 13, 2020 09:00 UTC