Secretary of Education expects all schools to be open full time in September

Cardona made his comments on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”, acknowledging that President Joe Biden achieved one of the goals of his administration of open most K-8 schools to in-person learning five days a week this spring .

Just now on @ Morning_Joe , Education @ SecCardona says, “With regard to the September, yes, I expect all schools to be open full-time in person f or all students. ” pic.twitter.com/xVhjdERkmJ

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“Regarding September, yes, I expect all schools to be open full time in person for all students”, said Cardona on the morning show. “We really need to make sure that students have the opportunity to learn in the classroom and frankly, I’d rather have it this spring.”

Cardona said that the drive for schools to reopen is essential because educators found that classroom instruction was simply more effective than prolonging online learning.

“Students don’t learn they do so well remotely, ”Cardona said. “There is no substitute for in-person learning.”

In a statement released by the White House on the results of the March National Assessment of Educational Progress 2021 , Cardona said that the 54% of all schools K- 8 are now open for full instruction and the 88% were open to at least a mix of face-to-face classes and virtual learning.

“Today’s data also shows positive trend lines for a growing number of African American, Hispanic, Asian students and American Indians / Alaska Natives enrolled in in-person learning since January, ” said Cardona. “This success is the result of hard work and intentional collaboration between the administration, states, school districts, educators and families across the country. ”

Data from survey conducted by the Institute of Education Sciences of the Department of Education, suggest that the nation is close to a goal set by President Biden for back to school although there are still a few months left to achieve a complete return to normality.

School reopening in advance

A survey released by the Department of Education on Thursday found that the 54% of public schools below high school provided full-time face-to-face learning, according to The Associated Press. The percentage has increased compared to 46% registered in January.

“Until we are at 100%, we must keep our foot on the accelerator ”, said Cardona.

Almost the 40% of schools still teach completely remotely, and around 20% are leading conduct hybrid programs, with time split between in-person and online learning.

“We are really trying to make sure which are the places where they are not offering in-person learning or full-time in-person learning to find out why they are not, we want to make sure that we are supporting those states, those districts, ”Cardona said.

Biden had announced . who have called for a faster return to in-person learning since the pandemic disrupted education early last year.