| | | | | |  | | By Juan Perez Jr. | With help from Lauraine Genota Programming announcement: Our newsletters are evolving. Morning Education will continue to publish daily for POLITICO Pro subscribers, but starting on July 13th will consolidate to a weekly newsletter for all others. There will be no changes to the policy newsletters available to POLITICO Pro subscribers. To continue to receive Morning Education daily, as well as access POLITICO Pro's full suite of policy tools and trackers, get in touch about a Pro subscription. Already a Pro subscriber? Learn more here. | | | — Vice President Mike Pence is pointing at potential culprits in a troubling spread of recent coronavirus cases: Young people. — Inside the Beltway, it's a busy week in store for the education world. — "We must do better for our children," Education Secretary Betsy DeVos declared before this week's 56th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. IT'S MONDAY, JUNE 29. As coronavirus deaths mount and President Donald Trump strikes a law-and-order pose, some of Sen. Bernie Sanders' die-hard college supporters are begrudgingly coming around to Joe Biden. Mississippi lawmakers voted to erase the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag this weekend. Amid a mountain of bad polling and stark warnings from allies, the president has acknowledged his reelection woes to allies. Here's your daily reminder to send tips to today's host at jperez@politico.com — and also colleagues Nicole Gaudiano (ngaudiano@politico.com), Michael Stratford (mstratford@politico.com) and Bianca Quilantan (bquilantan@politico.com ). Share your event listings with educalendar@politicopro.com. And don't forget to follow us on Twitter: @Morning_Edu and @POLITICOPro. | | | | Get the free POLITICO news app for the critical updates you need. Breaking news, analysis, videos, and podcasts, right at your fingertips. Download for iOS and Android. | | | | | | THE ROAD AHEAD: At a time when the White House seems content to paste a bright outlook atop its pandemic response plan, Pence pointed to possible culprits in the recent spike of cases: Young people. — During a Sunday sitdown with CBS' "Face The Nation," Pence said new coronavirus outbreaks may be arising because younger Americans aren't abiding by federal guidance on how to prevent the disease from spreading. POLITICO's Victoria Guida has the story. — "One of the things that we've heard in Texas and Florida in particular is that nearly half of those who are testing positive are Americans under the age of 35," Pence said. — There's more: "What is happening here is a combination of increased testing — we're able to test a great deal more Americans than we were able to several months ago — but it also may be an indication that as we're opening our economy up, that younger Americans have been congregating in ways that may have disregarded the guidance that we gave on the federal level for all the phases of reopening," he added. — Of course, deep partisan divides factor into diverging public attitudes towards the virus. But Pence's words, and last week's warnings from the country's infectious disease chief Anthony Fauci, underscore the role young people can play as "vectors" for the spread of disease. — All this reiterates tremendously difficult, and still unanswered, questions about the road ahead for a fall revival of campus life. If a local bar scene fires up to meet demand from students flocking to sun-splashed college towns, what lies in store for community members who are at higher risk for serious illness and death? If cash registers stay idle and tuition payments slow down, what's in store for the economy? It won't be long before we start getting answers. — Elementary and high school administrators have an equally sticky problem. Recent guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics "strongly advocates" that schools develop policies for the coming year based on the idea that students will be physically present in schools. Risk reduction strategies from Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health note that "there is no perfect plan to reopen schools safely, only 'less bad' options." Meanwhile, former Education Secretary Arne Duncan added his voice to the chorus calling for a massive infusion of federal resources to help K-12 schools survive. Stay tuned. | | | | TOMORROW AT 1 p.m. EDT - A POLITICO TOWN HALL: AMERICA AT A TIPPING POINT: The killing of George Floyd sparked demonstrations against police brutality and racial injustice around the world. One month later, join POLITICO Live for a town hall to reflect on the past and reckon with what is next to come. Featured guests include Julián Castro, former secretary of HUD and Democratic presidential candidate; Vanita Gupta, president and chief executive of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; Rashad Robinson, civil rights leader and president of Color of Change; and Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Additional guests TBA. REGISTER HERE. | | | | | | | | BE ON THE LOOK OUT: Buckle up for busy days ahead of the July Fourth weekend. Here's what's on tap: — The Supreme Court could issue landmark rulings on school choice and religious liberty. Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue examines whether the Montana Supreme Court violated the U.S. Constitution when it struck down a tax-credit scholarship program that allowed students to attend private, including religious, schools. The Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru and St. James School v. Biel cases weigh whether religious schools and other faith-based institutions have sweeping authority to hire and fire employees. — Fauci, CDC Director Robert Redfield, Assistant Secretary for Health Brett Giroir and FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn are set to testify again before the Senate HELP Committee on Tuesday, and they'll update Congress on how the nation is progressing on its efforts to safely return to work and school. — The House is lining up a vote on its $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill, H.R. 2 (116), POLITICO's Sam Mintz reports, as the body aims to get the legislation across the finish line by packaging amendments together as much as possible while the pandemic forces changes to Congress' voting patterns. The bill includes the "Reopen and Rebuild America's Schools Act, " a $130 billion effort to upgrade the nation's poorest public schools. — On Wednesday at 10 a.m., the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on the NCAA's controversial plan to regulate how athletes earn money from endorsement deals or other uses of their "name, image and likeness." — Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, and National Education Association President Lily Eskelsen García hold a townhall conversation on Friday, during the labor union's virtual representative assembly. | | | 'RACISM HAS NO PLACE IN OUR NATION OR IN OUR SCHOOLS': That's what DeVos and her administration's top civil rights official declared in a letter to education leaders on Friday. — July 2 marks the 56th anniversary of the Civil Rights Rights act of 1964, DeVos noted. "This anniversary is a timely reminder to mark our society's progress and to strengthen our resolve to realize the law's full promise: racial equality for all," her letter said. — "As a nation, we must do better for our children and for all students," the letter said. "Racial discrimination is both wrong and illegal. As education leaders, you must confront and address race discrimination in your schools." | | | |  | | | | | | SHAKEUP AT PRINCETON: Princeton University on Saturday announced that it will remove former President Woodrow Wilson's name from its public and international affairs school in the wake of nationwide protests against racism and police brutality. — "The trustees concluded that Woodrow Wilson's racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school or college whose scholars, students, and alumni must stand firmly against racism in all its forms," said Christopher L. Eisgruber, Princeton's president, in a statement this weekend. POLITICO's Jordan Muller has the story. BILL WOULD PROVIDE FUNDING FOR SAFE SCHOOL REOPENING: Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) introduced a bill last week that would help schools and colleges with the costs of protecting students and staff from the coronavirus when buildings reopen in the fall. — The Reopen Schools Safely Act, S. 4081 (116) , would establish a federal grant program at the Education Department. Governors would be able to apply for the funding and would have the flexibility to determine how to distribute the funds to local school districts and colleges. The funds could be used for any expense needed to meet the CDC and local guidelines for mitigating the virus spread, including personal protective equipment, sanitation supplies and Covid-19 tests. JUDGE SIDES WITH CORINTHIAN STUDENTS: A group of 7,200 student borrowers in Massachusetts will have their loans to attend a school owned by Corinthian Colleges canceled, after a federal judge ruled against DeVos' administration in a long-running legal battle against the defunct for-profit institution. — Last week's decision to fully discharge the affected loans from U.S. District Judge Leo T. Sorokin was hailed by the Massachusetts attorney general, who said the ruling marked a historic effort to relieve students from millions of dollars in debt. | | | | WINNERS PLAY THE LONG GAME : With so much going on in the present, it is more important than ever to look ahead to how society will thrive in the future. "The Long Game" is a newsletter designed for executives, investors and policymakers leading that conversation. Engage with the sharpest minds on our biggest challenges, from pandemics to environmental justice, climate change to renewable energy, inequality and the future of work. Subscribe today for a nuanced look at these issues and possible solutions. Subscribe today. | | | | | | | | — A new analysis from Common Sense Media and the Boston Consulting Group concludes that approximately 15 million to 16 million K-12 public school students live in households either without an internet connection or a device adequate for distance learning, while 300,000 to 400,000 K-12 teachers live in households without adequate internet connectivity. | | | — Fall semester uncertainty leaves New York college adjuncts hanging: POLITICO Pro — The coronavirus and the Right's scientific counterrevolution: The New Republic — 'We could be feeling this for the next decade': Virus hits college towns: New York Times — Spied on. Fired. Publicly shamed. 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