Democrat-heavy districts remain most likely to stay partly closed.
by Matt Welch
Reason.com
The masks are off, the planes are full, the deaths are way down, and the thriving is high, yet millions of parents still don’t know whether their children’s schools will be reliably open this fall.
That’s because many government-run schools, which despite an ongoing enrollment decline are still the main providers of instruction for around 90 percent of the country’s 56 million or so K-12 students, have yet to promulgate final rules on the kinds of COVID mitigations that can limit in-person capacity and/or trigger automatic shutdowns.
“Up until a couple of weeks ago, you thought we’d be out of the woods by September,” Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont said at a news conference last week. “But now you see the Delta variant, you see what’s going on in Australia, you see what’s going on in Israel, you see what’s going on in Britain, not to mention Arkansas and L.A., so we’re going to have to make up our minds on that a little bit later.”