Sen. Patty Murray would not say it was wrong to close schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, after the Department of Education showed declines in test scores.
You can now listen to Fox News articles!getting school children back in classrooms as they dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic, and defended school closures even while acknowledging the impact that policy has had on children.
Discussing the issue on CNN's"State of the Union," host Dana Bash asked Murray if it was a"mistake" to keep students home for so long.
Murray then recognized that"we have an issue about kids being out of school," stating that she is"very focused… on making sure that we help get our kids back to where they need to be."
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