Trump Pushes for Schools to Reopen in Fall 2020

On Trump on Reopening Schools

Sources:

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/08/888898194/trump-blasts-expensive-cdc-guidelines-for-reopening-schools

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/us/politics/trump-schools-reopening.html

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/14/politics/trump-schools-reopening/index.html

https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-demands-that-schools-reopen-with-parents-caught-in-the-crossfire

Official Remarks by President Trump on Reopening Schools:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-safely-reopening-americas-schools/

Fact-checking Betsy DeVos' statement:

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/16/facebook-posts/no-betsy-devos-didnt-say-only-002-kids-would-die-i/

Further Reading:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/07/20/trump-vs-biden-reopening-schools/

Data sources for my calculations:

https://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/education-statistics/index.html

https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/2009324/tables/sass0708_2009324_t12n_03.asp

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372

https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/06/23/coronavirus-covid-deaths-us-age-race-14863

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51706225

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid