A photo taken on May 12 of a school in San Jose, Calif. A recent survey found that 94% of school superintendents said they were not ready to announce their plans for when they would resume in-person instruction.
Most American children have not stepped into a classroom since mid-March, when concerns over the coronavirus shuttered schools across the country.
Now, with COVID-19 rates rising throughout the United States, school districts are scrambling to plan how to reopen – some scheduled to do so as early as next month. But big questions remain about how to balance the risk of the virus with the impact on school children and their parents of keeping schools closed.
Nothing about the 2020 presidential campaign is typical and the debates are no different. Diane talks with Janet Brown, executive director of the Commission on Presidential Debates, about how they are planning in the middle of a pandemic.
In a lawsuit filed this week, New York Attorney General Letitia James said a months long investigation into the National Rifle Association found extensive "fraud and abuse" and she's calling for the powerful gun rights organization to be dissolved. Diane talks with Adam Winkler, professor of law at UCLA, about the lawsuit and what comes next.
Diane talks to Robert P. Jones, author of the new book, "White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity."
Diane talks with Caroline Chen, health care for ProPublica.
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