U.S. Education Chief Betsy DeVos Downplays Risk of Opening Schools
- Secretary continues push to get kids back to classrooms soon
- Trump has threatened to pull funds from schools that go remote
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The top U.S. education official downplayed the risk of reopening schools in the fall, a high priority of President Donald Trump, and repeated a threat to cut funding to schools that don’t fully resume in-person learning as educators wrestle with the risk of coronavirus.