{"id":363051,"date":"2022-02-28T06:01:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T20:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=363051"},"modified":"2022-02-28T06:01:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T20:01:05","slug":"statement-on-cdc-guidance-and-keeping-schools-safely-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/statement-on-cdc-guidance-and-keeping-schools-safely-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement on CDC guidance and\u00a0keeping schools safely open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona issued the following statement on the release of new CDC guidance:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ninety-nine percent of schools are safely open for in-person learning and that is a testament to the hard work and partnership of school communities\u2014particularly parents, educators, district leaders and school staff. With today\u2019s announcement of updated CDC guidance, we can continue to keep schools safely open while allowing for educators and parents to get back to focusing on what is most important: our students\u2019 futures. Moving forward, districts should continue to work with local health experts, parents, and educators to identify what works best for their communities and consider the appropriate mitigation strategies needed to keep students and staff safe. This work\u2014in addition to the critical work of helping students catch up academically and providing emotional and mental health supports\u2014can and should be done using American Rescue Plan funds. As we move forward into a new phase of recovery, the department remains committed to our school communities and providing the guidance and resources they need to be successful.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Information on the new CDC guidance can be found at https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/science\/community-levels.html?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>MIGUEL CARDONA (Special to the Saipan Tribune)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Miguel Cardona is the U.S. Secretary of Education.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s Note: U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona issued the following statement on the release&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":331240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5355],"class_list":["post-363051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-cdc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}