parents of color were more concerned than white parents. there was also someen racial disparities as well. it's not just the schools. if you look across a variety of different measures, whether it's going to the movies or restaurants, even having some over to your house. parents are some difficult and less comfortable engaging in all these different types of social activities thanta nonpayers. >> host: just to show the chart, 56% ofho those mothers expressing when it comes to syndicate back to school, daycare, very uncomfortable. 24% saying somewhat uncomfortable. 42% of father saying they were very uncomfortable with hisis idea. does this idea about discomfort extend to going to a shopping mall, going to a park, et cetera? how far does ago? >> guest: we asked i think around ten or 12 different items including playgrounds. so going with your child to the playground. a lot of parents in my neighborhood, certainly but i think about the country for taking the kids to the playground outside, supposed to be safe with the interactivity but again

parents of color were more concerned than white parents. there were some racial disparities as well. it is not just across school, if you look across a variety of measures, whether that is going to movies or the restaurant or having people over to your house, parents are less comfortable engaging in all different types of social activities than nonparents. host: 66% of the mothers expressing when it comes to sending their kids to school or 42%care very uncomfortable of fathers saying they were very uncomfortable. this idea about discomfort extent to going to a shopping mall or a park. how far does it go? guest: we asked around 10 or 12 different items, including playgrounds -- going t with your child to the playground. a lot of parents in my neighborhood and i think around the country are taking a look at the playground, but again, we're seeing a lot of discomfort. the uncomfortable does not necessarily mean you will not do it, but maybe how you approach it will be different. when it comes to schools, that is a whole different ballgame beca

if you compare it to parent/non-parents, parents without children, 14% saying they're doing 3 to 4 hours of cleaning per day. there's more to this study, if you want to ask our guest, 202-748-8000 for parents with children under the age of 18. and all others, 202-748-8001. on the political front, you can factor this in, there's a story in the "wall street journal" this morning about where the congressional role should be in offering assistance. they highlight the fact that it was back in march, approving the family's first coronavirus response act which provides 12 weeks of paid leave for employees of home bound children through the end of 2020. you could talk about the specific or you can talk about the larger aspect of providing that kind of resource. what do you think? is that a good thing, bad thing? is there a mix there? >> well, as a parent, i think it's kind of a no brarn. we know a lot of child care centers and public schools are going to need additional funds if they're going to bring on and install ppe and plexiglass and all the different things that will be required to do. i a

i have heard from republican parents, democratic appearance, socialist parents, independent parents. every parent loves their kid and they want them back at school when it's safe. let's do it. let's build that safe school. no one has talked about, and here's what you can count on from us to make sure that you have all hands on deck. you have the soap that you need and everything else. all costs money at a time when they are slashing budgets. the little bit we had is even less now. it's going to take some help. help your public schools. help us. help us. >> bill: think you for your time today. we'll see what we get from this event. it's about to get underway in the east room of the white house. lillie, thank you. nice to see you and we will see what happens in the coming weeks. thank you. lily eskelsen garcia from the teachers union. as i mentioned, president trump is going to speak any moment with educators and we are watching the white house. we will take you there. folks in the room will tell us about what comes of the next two months in america. reaction to the trump team, communi

but first president trump parent power revolution.he is last week in what i thought was one of the most important policy statements of his presidency. >> if schools do not reopen the funding should go to parents to send their child to public private charter religious or homeschool of their choice. the key word being choice. if the school is closed, the money should follow the student so the parents and families are in control of their own decisions. i would like the money to go to the parents of the student. >> i've been arguing for this for years. here's what i wrote in my book more human. the government school monopoly required standardization and a factory approach. we need a completely open, local marketplace for school, teachers, entrepreneurs, groups of parents must be permitted to set up schools free of bureaucratic restrictions and hassle. today is becoming a reality. all because the teacher union and the democrats and the bureaucrats have overplayed their hand. as i put it in a tweet, after last sunday's show, the government

and i have surveyed their parents. and, you know, one says, you know, like, she can learn how to distance learn, but he's got to be in school. so every child is different. and i think that, again, you know, that the problem with congress is it's been this one size fits all, this is what you have to do. what i hear from educators across the country is they don't have any flexibility when they get to funding, because every school district is different. in your testimony, you discussed the choices you had to make in tennessee around physically reopening the schools. have you looked at what's at stake if you don't set a goal of in-person learning to give parents that option this fall? >> yes, sir, and thank you so much for the question. i think tennessee is a great example of a state that has urban/suburban/rural communities, all with different needs and challenges, and that's why we think parent choice is so important about what's best for their own child. when we're thinking about the risks and consequences of not reopen

i think, you know, in a way, lots of the parents here and lots of the parents and families that you speakl know how important it is to look after our children, and to nurture and care for young kids. but i didn't realise, before i started all this work, i didn't realise just how important it is. some of the science behind all of it is extraordinary, it's sort of 90% of our adult brain grows before the age of five, and it just shows what a precious time this is and what an amazing opportunity us as parents have to really nurture their minds, and really put them in the best possible position for their future lives. dada, dada? dada, dada. at the heart of the bbc‘s tiny happy people initiative, a simple message. talk to your children from as early as possible. want some more yoghurt? are you making a mess?! mess is good. it's important, because more than one in four children starting primary school in england don't reach the required level of literacy development, and it's a similar picture right across the uk. the duchess of cambridge has been involved for some time. chatter. today, she and

we need parents education. we need to teach parents how to access parent view and all of the various apps they will be using. i want to be creative as a community to be flexible and check in regularly so we see what is working. >> : i didn't really hear much about guidelines for prek or special education children. i know for preschoolers they need to touch everything. like was mentioned earlier it's really important that we prioritize the safety of our staff and families. i'm asking that more resources be spent for distance learning and bridging the gaps for families to ensure equitable education. >> : thank you. >> : what is necessary for our students to learn safety distance. please work on those mou's we've been gathering information about what is necessary for fall learning. i also want to know how once you filled out our surveys and a attended the town hall. we're about to run out of time tonight. are there other venues for this. i feel our first phase of distance learning needs to be phased in. we can't e

we need parents education. we need to teach parents how to access parent view and all of the various apps they will be using. i want to be creative as a community to be flexible and check in regularly so we see what is working. >> : i didn't really hear much about guidelines for prek or special education children. i know for preschoolers they need to touch everything. like was mentioned earlier it's really important that we prioritize the safety of our staff and families. i'm asking that more resources be spent for distance learning and bridging the gaps for families to ensure equitable education. >> : thank you. >> : what is necessary for our students to learn safety distance. please work on those mou's we've been gathering information about what is necessary for fall learning. i also want to know how once you filled out our surveys and a attended the town hall. we're about to run out of time tonight. are there other venues for this. i feel our first phase of distance learning needs to be phased in. we can't e

has questions from parents. town halls with parents to see what they can do to help effectively reopening. the concern is if we don't reopen schools, again, is that homework gap or learning gap. what you see in districts that are low-income districts is, that they are really hurting more, and what we've seen is, is there's really populations that bear the burden. right? there are 37% of rural students. 21% of urban students lack home internet access. 35% of native american americans, 30% of black students and 26% of latino students have inadequate internet access at home compared to only 18% of white students. we've got a disparity we've got to be worried about. when children come back to school, they're going to be significantly needier than they've ever been in the past and this is probably the biggest hurdle i think our education system will have to overcome, it's really assessing the needs for each student and they're very different depending where you are. >> thank you for that answer. i'm a big believer in

no doubt, a lot of parents and teachers are worried about that. how realistically do you think this hybrid model will work or do you think they are going to have to, in the end, go back full time? what are you hearing from the parents and the teachers about how they try to figure out how this is going to work? >> well, nobody is going to go back full-time in a situation where you can't protect their health. what's going to happen, instead, i think, is that you're going to have a lot of teachers either take a leave of absence or ask for reasonable accommodations or just quit. so you'll have another new problem that the president and betsy devos, who, by the way, have never spent ten minutes in a classroom, you're going to have another new problem, because you're going to have a huge brain drain, because they have now scared the bejesus out of parents and students and teachers with their antics yesterday. so the hybrid model, what we need to do is we need to actually have, you know, a way of having some routines for kids and having options of child

so that they can support parents and have that conversation with parents on here are tactical things that you can go based off of developmentally appropriate practice and what's available in the thome. >> well, thank you, darr sam orioles. i want to thai want to thank ou panelists for their testimony today. i also, mr. chairman, want to encourage us to not just look at access to child karks but also do a deep dive on developmental learning that has been lost during the covid-19 pandemic as well. thank you all. >> thank you. young lady's time has expired and the chair now recognizes dr. winstrum for five minutes. you may need to unmute. >> my bad. thank you very much for recognizing m, mr. chairman, ani thank everybody for being here today. i'm glad to have this hearing. it's really important and it's an important as it's affected communities all across america. i want to recognize child care providers who have adapted and used these unprecedented circumstances to continue to provide some access to care and i want to ask at some point about states sharing information on best practices

parents of color were more concerned than white parents. racial disparities as well. it is not just across school, if you look across a variety of measures, whether that is going to movies or the restaurant or having people over to your house, parents are less comfortable engaging in all different types of social activities than nonparents. host: 66% of the mothers expressing when it comes to sending their kids to school or 42%care very uncomfortable of fathers saying they were very uncomfortable. this idea about discomfort extent to going to a shopping mall or a park. how far does it go? guest: we asked around 10 or 12 different items, including playgrounds -- going t with your child to the playground. a lot of parents in my neighborhood and i think around the country are taking a look at the playground, but again, we're seeing a lot of discomfort. the uncomfortable does not necessarily mean you will not do it, but maybe how you approach it will be different. when it comes to schools, that is a whole different ballgame because it is inside

for working parents, how will remote learning work? i promise you this, we're going to try to get to as many questions as we can today and every monday from now until labor day. but first, we have our team of reporters on the ground in two school districts trying to find the answer to that central question, how do we make sure our kids are learning? we start in the district caught in the middle of this debate, fairfax county, virginia, it is the tenth largest school district in this nation. all ali vitaly has made her way there. parents can decide whether kids will learn remotely or through this hybrid of in person and online teaching. secretary of education bets did i devos has criticized their approach as she wants these schools to reopen fully. what are your hearing from students there on the ground? >> reporter: yeah, craig, you're exactly right of we've heard frerch from everyone on this issue from the secretary of education and local officials but now we're here on the ground talking to the students who are at the center of this.

i'm also speaking to you as a parent with type one diabetes st i have theer o interest of otheo parents with pre-existing conditions or grandparents at homeme in mind and i'm speaking' you as the daughter of a teacher. so i'm look at all of these adus things. and i would just remind my vacu colleagues on the other side of the aisle that you can't open schools without adults and that kids don't live in a vacuum.. we do know that kids are better served in school. i experienced remote education with myy son and frankly it was pretty lousy. and so we all want our children back in school. we know it is better for them academically, socially and kids need nutrition and childcare s through schools. they need to be there. but we also know that other countries wisely have not opened while rates are surging because that essentially dooms this process to failure. we also know now that kids ten and up seem to spread this just as readily as adults, putting to families in danger. and so while we know that children are less effected and tend to remain either asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic, they do

parents and students are rightly outraged. new york city has announced it is going to adopt a similar plan for the fall leaving all the working parents there in a complete mind and kids, of course, left wondering if life will ever be the same for them again. now having parents stress and confusion, governor cuomo said today he may not let schools reopen at all. now, democrats, the teachers union are putting their own political interest first and education secretary betsy devos must have watched the show last night because she nailed them on it today. >> there are some creating false paradigms for the fall. here right in our neighborhood to come at the d.c. area, fairfax county, which is one of the most well-funded -- i wouldl it an elite public school in america -- offered families a so-called choice for this fall. either zero days in school for their students work two days. it would fail americans students and it would fail taxpayers. >> laura: and guess what, ingram dome xp 30 gets results. after we highlighted the fairfax c

one of our kids with their married parents live for their whole childhood with their married parents that also make a huge difference they'll do better in school will be more likely will college and even though they might compositions changed dramatically over the last 3 or 4 decades more kids are in still poor families who are kids were both their parents i think americans are going to figure this out single parents alone have high stress levels stigma because it gets them because they're single parents. as teenagers we have these adult problems that we feel like we're adults but where we're very malleable isn't that we're still children in a way our emotions go up and down and go when happens is the many kids are making these very tough decisions around friends and peer groups and they're making a lot of decisions around relationships and who their phone love with it's with the with those people and it's just this kind of like these tough things like what really into a lot of kids in poverty. i never thought i would. ever play because i was i am i fell out. training i do so much ch

that's how we feel as parents. we just feel like we got left in the dust, and this will be a huge socioeconomic gap for parents because the majority of parents in this country can't afford to have private tutors or private, you know -- >> absolutely true. >> -- private schools. we can't afford that. what is everyone doing? the government bails out. they did trillions of dollars with the bail outs on wall street and they're doing nothing for us parents. and no one's really talking about it, and that's why i do appreciate the opportunity to be on your show just to really be a voice for these parents. the other thing i do want to make really clear, chris, is the parents that want their kids to have in-person learning we are not in any way, shape or form trying to take away that option that the parents that want the digital option -- we are fully supportive of those parents 100%. while we're also very supportive 100% of our teachers. we love our teachers. there are teachers that want to go back, and we recognize those

but i think about all of those parents who have to choose which parent is going to keep their job orot. i am not advocating for reopening the school to early, but i think about a lot of the inequality that can come between people of different means who have access to good internet and the remote learning opportunities and acquiring computers and a quiet environment and that will create more inequality in society. i don't know. it is a tough spot, but i am grateful to hear about the various stimulus plans for caregivers and for parents who i outk should have been left appropriately because you want to take care of essential workers first, but there are a lot of parents in tough situations because they want to keep their children safe but they also need to work. host: that is bill in college park, maryland.a couple of minutes left in the segment.i didn't want to touch base on other stories this morning. first, the president tweeting several tweets, including focusing on the russian bounties inry on u.s. troops in afghanistan, saying that the russian bounties story is another made up st

let's talk about "nice" white parents. "nice white parents" are the problem.personal to me. you know who has nice white parents? me, and my siblings. my parents are nice, good, white people, who instilled in us a work ethic to go out there and try to do our best, to work very hard, to persevere. a word that my father used repeatedly. all three kids went to public school in new jersey, went on the private college and beyond. i don't look at my parents as the problem. i look at my parents as having done a really good job raising kids in a complex world. when you start throwing around "nice white parents are the biggest problem in our schools," it seems laughable on its face and it's actually insulting to a lot of people. >> dagen: i listened to the introduction of the podcast -- >> harris: including black parents. >> kennedy: or a nice asian parents. go ahead, dig in. >> dagen: i listened to the introduction of the podcast, it's not out yet. just the introduction. it's already the number two podcast in the country on apple after "call her daddy," by the way. it

i need a parent.i'm looking forward to getting my cousins, they live in iraq and i have some cousins in france so i don't know. >> they would love to -- they have started immigration process, some of them have started it. maybe just write letters to the senators. we need a guardian angel to come over. his mom's sister and first cousin are willing to come here but everything right now, i don't think you can fly. you have to get a visa. and even the girls don't have passports for them to leave and go visit. yet nash and nadine are going to take guardianship of nancy because she's a minor. but we did set up a gofundme to help with expenses to make sure. >> where can people find your gofundme and i'm talking to my control room? do we have the gofundme information, guys, that we could put on the screen? can you give us the link and i'm telling everyone, i know this is all on the fly, but i'll tweet it at. i'm at brooke b so i want to help facilitate because you do need a guardian angel. >> that strikes me.

the same is true for parents. many will be forced to make stressful choices between caring for their children and going back to work. we must address those needs as well as their own mental health and well-being. as we continue to come together to tackle these challenges, i'm honored that you could all be here today to offer your thoughts. i look forward to working with america'ke sure that s children and families can be healthy and thriving. thank you very much. pres. trump: thank you very much. governor, what a great job you are doing. thank you for being here. and thank you, millennia. we just heard, mike was telling me that governor desantis is doing a terrific job. he just announced that schools will be open in the fall and we hope that most schools are going to be open. we don't want people to make political statements or do it for political reasons so they keep the schools close, no way, so we are going to put pressure on governors and everybody else to open the schools, to get them open, and it is very imp

parents are frustrated.ow they are going to teach their children, i have a 7-year-old, she's going into third grade, we are facing the same challenges and we know this, let us make our own decisions for our children. evidence just as you have listed. don't need to be listed. studies all over the world shows sudden not transmitting the disease. if the teachers are worried, thats the teachers teach remotey into the classrooms and put younger teachers in the classrooms to keep our kids on a balanced level. find another way around this. think outside the box and let's move forward. >> i love your take on the policy idea, not being able to do anything, they are so powerless. i wantedd to turn them on their head, don'too wait for your locl government to give you, demand your money back. what do you think of that? >> i like it a lot. i come from a place that says there shouldn't be a federal department of education. i love education so much but nevertheless, the money should follow the kids. if they are not going t

parents understand this intuitively. at the same time, they know having a test every other week is not the answer. there is a balance to be struck important it's an one. >> one more question. it's been disheartening to see that much of the guidance from georgia's department of ed was that cares act funding be used to prop up the old system to fi ll budget gaps rather than support students in the spring and over the summer. what is your view on how states utilize that money, and how could any future funding support will be crafted to more directly aid students? -- again, i am definitely a federalist area i understand the importance of the state and local communities. -- >> i am definitely a federalist. i understand the importance of the state and local communities. i also think it is very clear that this spring clearly on arthed a lot of realities about how k-12 education has been experienced and how we have actually accomplished it for a number of years, or not, in some cases. it has helped to reveal what deficiencies we

and he has taken care of aging parents. he's been a single parent.knows just how hard it is to raise a family and to care for a sick family member. and he knows that millions of americans who are just trying to make ends meet -- i remember those days when i was one of them. the president has laid out a fair plan, a great plan how we can help caregivers get access to quality caregiving. they will get an adequate salary, they can work for themselves and juggle the responsibilities of work and caring for a sick parent. we have some guests here today that can tell you firsthand not just what they remember, like me, but what they are doing every day. cell even before the pandemic, our country was experiencing a caregiving crisis. ed some care just went unattended because they couldn't , afford it or didn't have time. this has the possibility of changing with the election of joe biden for president. we currently have a president that clearly allows us to know that he cares about no one but himself. south it is time for us to have someone who not only cares

right now an awful lot of children are being born to parents and parents who are not married to each other and that is about 50 percent of the birth the youngest generation in other words about half of the birth and the youngest generation are babies born outside of marriage to typically quite young parents we have norms over the years. with kids who are single parents. generally education. they also. think kids who come from married couple. more of our kids with their married parents live for their whole childhood with their married parents that also can make a huge difference they'll do better in school will be more likely to college and even though they might compositions magically over the last 3 or 4 decades more kids aren't still families who are kids were both there so i think americans are going to figure this out single parents alone have high stress levels stigma comes against them because they're single parents. as teenagers we have these adult so we feel like we're adults but we're very malleable in the sense that we're still children in a way our emotions go up and down

for resources on what you can do if you're a parent, head to nbcbayarea.com/parents. >>> if you have a tip for candice nguyen or anyone else, you can give us a call or visit our webb. >>> you can call it whip lash in alameda county. the county just shut down outdoor dining over the weekend because of a rise in covid-19 cases. today, california approved the request to reopen outdoor dining. it's good news for a lot of the restaurants. >> yes, you can do it outdoors and bring everybody back. we can tell them, hey, you're going to be on the schedule. >> also in alameda county, today state said the oakland zoo can reopen to the public. it has been closed for four months. the general manager tells us the zoo has gone through most of the reserve funds and was at risk. closing for good. they man to reopen july 29. that would be a fun thing to do as a family. we're talking about the end of the week weather. we're almost there. >> we're inching closer and closer. we've had some pretty good weather. the one thing we didn't have to contend with is some haze and some smoke moving boo contra cost

as a parent, i believe that. as someone who has a responsibility to help support education of six plus million kids in california. i have the backs of our teachers, nurses,, guidance staff, principals, bus drivers, janitors, all the folks that are responsible for the caretaking, the safety, and to health of our children. we have to have their backs as well, including obviously the preciousness that is our children and the kids in our education system, but safety's foundation amy safety will ultimately make the determination on how we go about educating our kids as we move into the fall we work our way through this pandemic. here is the five principles that we are laying out in terms of our expectations. here is our pandemic plan for schools in the state of california. number one, safe in person school. based upon local health data and i will walk through that bullet point. with new mask requirements that we are putting forth today. some clarification and some constructive guidance on physical distancing and other

in person. >> some parents work. they aren't able to take their kids through the distance learning and working at the same time. >> she hopes to form a pod of five or six students. it would give the kids social interaction, something that's missing from the computer screen. >> we're really building the -- as parents. >> shannon mulligan says her organization has gotten dozens of calls in just the last week from parents looking to hire tutors for their pods. >> they can interact and have the teacher and answer questions and work with each other. i think they're trying to make real life school situation for their children. >> for families who can't afford to send their kids to a pod or buy supplies. she wonders if it's an uneven playing field. >> there's been a lot of heated arguments within these facebook groups about, you know, about the issue because it's a real worry for all of us. >> vandy says they're looking for sponsoring them to -- it's something until school buildings come back to life. joe rosato jr. >>> a b

so what do parents think?gs, as long as there is guidance for the classes to be safe i would be happy to send them back. my daughter is already back two hours a week at secondary school and is finding that fine. 0bviously they are all spaced apart. for children of different abilities and some are getting on with their work and some are not in my concern is doing back in septemberthat are not in my concern is doing back in september that everyone will be ata in september that everyone will be at a different level and if they are considering putting people into a bubble, as i have heard, i don't know how that will affect how everyone works. i would like to know whether or not if we can still have apa whether or not if we can still have a pa curriculum creative curriculum and it not just a pa curriculum creative curriculum and it notjust be monday to friday of core which i know is valuable but the student's opinion matters and i would like... the day, is it going to be full—time, monday to friday, will they be st

you're a parent. i'm a parent. i was on a conference call with my son's school about this fall going forward. one thing they admitted which was part of some of the questioning there, it is the faculty that is very concerned. concerned about how this is all going to work. they are relying on cdc guidelines. even though as redfield said they are not prescriptive or requirements. the one really important line of questioning we heard i think from a couple of reporters, that they didn't have a good answer to, is social distancing. when it comes to schools. and the whole reason why, as a matter of fact, fairfax county, for example, which the education secretary called that one not in a good way saying they would go back a couple of days a week, because they can't physically fit kids in the school buildings in a safe way. other thing i want to point out. i wonder what dr. yasmin said. struck me about you, kate, the argument they made, pretty forcefully, on one hand, that children are not only not getting sick, but that th

parent, i am a parent also.f i had to send my children back to school, it would break my heart because i have people who are not just lying to us, but they are lying to our children. i would not want my children under the influence of people who are downright lying to them she, they do not know anything about this disease and then you want to send my child into a place where they me orcome home and infect my mother. tracking, there is no way you can track this. one person that leaves the school goes to 100 different places and then they come in contact with people who have been to 100 different places. i don't trust the tracking. host: let me ask you, does the distance-learning work for preschool and kindergartners and first graders? we have one parent saying it worked well for his 14-year-old, but what about those younger kids? can they get online in these zoom and chat rooms and have it be an effective learning tool or do they need to be together? caller: no, they do not need to be together. if it was my choic

those parents and said you're incompetent parents. if you're worried about your kid's safety, you're incompetent. it's astonishing, your number right there 70%, which turns out to be the percentage of americans who have confidence in dr. fauci. so here you have president trump taking on these political fights that are not just fights he can't win, but are suicidal fights. you have your 30% approval rating on the coronavirus, so you attack anthony fauci, two has a 70% rating. you have your 38% approval rating with the country and you attack 70% of america's parts for having concerns about sending their kids back to school. it does suggest political malpractice and suggests questions that is the president really all there on these questions? because these are the acts of a mad man, politically speaking, the act of a political lunatic. i mean, next thing he'll start attacking the schoolchildren. when that happens, we'll know he has gone completely around the bin. >> yeah, it's all one piece. the mary trump account of who president trump

parents i think know and understand this intuitively. and at the same time they know having a test every other week is not the answer. but there is a balance to be struck there and it as an important one. >> one more question it has been disheartening to see much of the guidance from george's department of education with the cares act funding be used to prop up the old system and fill budget gaps rather than to directly support students in the spring and over the summer what is your view on how they utilize that money and how could any future funding support bill be crafted to more directly aid students? >> again i am definitely a federalist i know it understand the importance of the state and local communities and decision-making around education. also as administration have been very clear that this spring clearly unearthed a lot of realities. and how we have actually accomplished it for a number of years or not in some cases. it has helped to reveal what deficiencies we have and where we need to do better, or do things differently. my

as a parent, i believe that. as somebody who has a responsibility to support education of kids in california. staff,the backs of our teachers, school nurses, guidance staff, principles, bus drivers, janitors, all the folks responsible for the caretaking, safety, and health of our children. we have to have their backs as preciousnessng the that is our children. safety is foundational. safety will ultimately make the determination of how we go about educating our kids as we move into the fall and work our way through this pandemic. here is the five principles that we are laying out in terms of expectations. here is our plan for schools in the state of california. safe, in person school. bulletwalk through that point in more detail in a moment. new mask requirements that we are putting forth today, some clarification and some constructive guidance on physical distancing and other adaptations that we expect to see in the school setting. we are putting out specific guidance as it relates to testing and contact tracing

what i tell every parent and also myself, easy for a parent to feel overwhelmed, say i have to replicateic expectation. if students are able to focus on, say, 30 minutes, 45 minutes a day of math, of reading, of writing a day, then they're at least not going to atrophy. that's a big deal. normally during summer you already have summer slide, kids aren't learning and they're forgetting's now a six-month slide. so what we're trying to do on our side, releasing things calmed, "get ready for grade level courses." everything is free, non-commercial and funded by philanthropy. students can learn at their own time and space, fill in gaps, anything they got rusty on and summer is a great time to start that. and hopefully teachers will use it in back to school. another thing i'm just working on, really in response to covid is something called schoolhouse.world, free, live tutoring for students who need that from really amazing volunteer tutors. on our side we want to create as many supports as possible for teachers, parents and students out there, and then if parents and teachers can provide just

responsibility of a parent? you take in making sure that your children are are secure, that can for oing all you survive.e able to so what is your choice? by themselves? work.take them to you know i had a lengthy almost two hours, on the phone with farm workers in our country. what they do without access to childcare? aloneeave their kids home or they take them to the fields. who are we? is the united states of america. our values? what do we care most about? $135 billion? let me tell you about that $135 billion. is in the cares bill. i will just say the democrats out in the heroes bill. as i see the bill my colleagues in the last 24 hours, it's still in there. for 43,000 reak people in this country. they get $1.6 million in a tax cut. they go back to claw back to 2019. no one knew the word coronavirus in 2018, 2019. it has nothing to do, nothing to this pandemic. and i'll e have -- mention those essential workers, today, because 17.9 million -- children under the age of 13, heir parents are frontline workers, a

right now an awful lot of children are being born to young parents and parents who are not married to each other that is about 50 percent of the births of the youngest generation in other words about half of the birth in the youngest generation are babies born outside of marriage to typically quite young parents we have normal over the years by doing careful study with kids who are from single parent families generally education. in themselves. or they also have. kids who come from married couples or. more of our kids were with their married parents live for their whole child with their married parents that all sorts of huge differences will do better in school will be will likely will college and even the family composition is changed dramatically over the last 3 or 4 decades we are still. we were kids. so i think americans are going to figure this out single parents alone have high stress levels. because it gets them because they're single parents. as teenagers we have these adult so we feel like. but we're very valuable isn't that we're still children or way our emotions go up and

a parent, how old are your kids ? >> my kids range from one-year-old to 39 years old. >> what your concern about schools this fall ? >> my concern is kids with asthma and various medical conditions going back to school, schools in michigan i knowa lot of them don't have air-conditioning . the climate and there is hard for children to breathe with a mask on. i'm concerned that there teaching the children right now half the parents don't understand the cause they changed it to other countries wearing the masks g. i think children should stay at home right now until they get everythingunder control . >> daarel burnette. >> thefirst time i was on the show was talking about school facilities . the infrastructure of public schools, their crisis. it's a long-running crisis so i think we've estimated $1 trillion in maintenance costs . one of the most concerning things about a recession is schools basically freeze upgrades to facilities and so all the schools that have a water pump issue , mildew in the schools etc., all that

some parents we have spoken to, we spoke to one parent off camera and they told us because of those safety precautions, they have been inside the classrooms and seen them. they said they feel comfortable sending their keindergartner bak to school. other parents and students say they are afraid and schools in avon should not be reopening, at least not like this. avon schools, they gave families two options. they could choose to do in-person classes five days a week. the first day is today or they could opt for e-learning online but they say that curriculum is limited. we spoke to one family who made the decision to keep their two youngest children at home, not feeling that it was safe enough for them to head back to school but they let their high school student, who is inside the high school right now make the decision for himself. he said he didn't want to go back to school in person, he didn't feel safe doing it, he doesn't feel safe doing it. as an a.p. student focused on college and his future, he felt like e-learning did not give him enough opportunities to learn what he needed to lear