DeVos joins Trump in pushing for schools to reopen, gives mixed messages on how

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in TV interviews Sunday joined in President Donald Trump’s press to reopen schools in the fall despite surges in coronavirus cases, but offered mixed messages on how they should go about it.

DeVos, in some appearances Sunday, was supportive of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention school reopening guidelines. Trump had criticized those guidelines as being too stringent.

Yet, DeVos refused to say whether schools should be required to follow the guidelines. In an interview with CNN, she said the guidelines were meant to be “flexible.”

“There is nothing in the data that would suggest that kids being back in school is dangerous to them,” DeVos said on CNN.