White House says schools should be open everywhere, ‘including in Chicago’

By Haisten Willis

Published January 5, 2022 12:00am ET

Schools are already open in most of the United States, and the White House is encouraging the holdouts to get students into classrooms as quickly as possible.

Some 96% of districts are beginning their spring semesters with in-person instruction, but a few big-city holdouts such as Chicago are grabbing national headlines thanks to union-led efforts to keep schools closed.