NYC Mayor de Blasio would lose authority over NYPD under state AG’s plan: report

Recent protests in New York City have shaken the public’s faith in the city’s police department to the point where Mayor Bill de Blasio should no longer have authority in law enforcement matters, New York’s state attorney general said Wednesday.
“I believe we need to bridge the undeniable divide between police and public,” Letitia James told reporters, according to The New York Times.
As part of her recommendations, James called for an independent panel – not de Blasio -- to appoint the city’s police commissioner and oversee hirings and firings at the NYPD.
A de Blasio spokeswoman quickly dismissed the plan from James -- an ally of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has long feuded with the mayor. Both Cuomo and de Blasio are Democrats.
“While we thank the attorney general for her investigation and look forward to reviewing the report in full and working together to further reform policing in this city, we do not believe creating a commission to oversee the NYPD does that,” de Blasio spokeswoman Freddi Goldstein told the Times.
In June, Cuomo blasted de Blasio’s handling of the rioting in the city, calling it a “disgrace” and threatening to “displace” the mayor at some point, if necessary.
President Trump has also ripped de Blasio, after the mayor announced plans to have "Black Lives Matter" painted on Fifth Avenue outside Trump Tower -- while simultaneously looking to cut $1 billion from the NYPD budget.
Prompting James’ report on the NYPD, and her subsequent recommendations, were a series of incidents that occurred during protests and rioting in the city that followed the May 25 death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis.
In one instance, an NYPD officer was seen on video shoving a young woman to the ground, resulting in her suffering a concussion. In another incident, a police officer was seen pulling down the mask of a protester before pepper-spraying him in the face. In a third incident, a police officer was seen waving a gun at a crowd after an object struck a fellow officer in the head.
De Blasio’s critics also include U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., who said during a Wednesday appearance on Fox News’ “Outnumbered Overtime” that the second-term mayor “has to be removed from office.”
“This is a tale of two cities,” Zeldin said. “You have the direction that New York City can be filled with opportunity, it can be filled with law and order, safety and security, peace and prosperity -- or it’ll be this direction that Bill de Blasio is taking it down, which is chaos and lawlessness and poverty and a lack of opportunity.”
De Blasio has partially blamed the uptick in violence on the coronavirus pandemic, pointing to an "absence of a functioning court system" among other issues.
"But the NYPD continues to move resources where they are needed and come up with new strategies. It is different from past years because we're dealing with a much greater challenge. But we will beat it,” the mayor said Wednesday.
James’ 57-page report also calls for the NYPD to end its practice of “kettling,” in which officers surround protesters, then move in against them and use batons on them before making arrests, the Times reported.
The report also urges the city to legalize or decriminalize more minor, “quality of life” offenses, saying many “are already not greatly enforced in predominately white neighborhoods."
Doing so, the report states, would decrease “unnecessary contact with police and the criminal justice system.”
The report also urges people to stop relying on police in certain instances, such as traffic enforcement, school safety, homeless outreach and crisis intervention, and states that “everything must be on the table.”
De Blasio, who limited by law to two terms, is scheduled to leave office Jan. 1, 2022.
 Fox News’ Charles Creitz and Stephanie Pagones contributed to this story.

Professor doubles down on prediction model of Trump's chances in 2020

Despite recent polls that identify Joe Biden as the heavy favorite in 2020, a political science professor is still standing by his prediction model that shows President Trump having a "91 percent" chance of winning in November.
Mediaite reported on Wednesday that Stony Brook Professor Helmut Norpoth is doubling down on his "Primary Model,” which has correctly predicted five out of the past six elections since 1996 and every single election but two in the past 108 years.
“The Primary Model gives Trump a 91 percent chance of winning in November,” Norpoth said. "This model gets it right for 25 of the 27 elections since 1912, when primaries were introduced."
As Mediaite noted, the two elections the model failed to predict was the 1960 election of John F. Kennedy and the 2000 election of George W. Bush.
Norpoth's model examines the results of presidential primaries as the strongest indicator as to the outcome in the general election, not the polls that dominate the political discussion. According to Norpoth, Biden is in a much weaker position than Trump because of his poor showing in the first two primary races.
Before making the stunning comeback in the South Carolina primary and carrying the following races, Biden came in fourth place in Iowa with just 15.8 percent of the vote and came in fifth place in New Hampshire with just 8.4 percent. Norpoth stressed that enthusiasm is key.
“The terrain of presidential contests is littered with nominees who saw a poll lead in the spring turn to dust in the fall,” Norpoth told Mediaite. “The list is long and discouraging for early frontrunners. Beginning with Thomas Dewey in 1948, it spans such notables as Richard Nixon in 1960, Jimmy Carter in 1980, Michael Dukakis in 1988, George H.W. Bush in 1992, and John Kerry in 2004, to cite just the most spectacular cases."
Norpoth's model, which correctly predicted Trump's victory roughly nine months before the 2016 election, suggests that the president will win by even a wider margin in the electoral college with 362 electoral votes versus the 304 he earned against Hillary Clinton. Mediaite pointed out such a victory would nearly match Barack Obama's 2008 election, where he earned 365 electoral votes.
The Stony Brook professor appeared on "The Ingraham Angle" back in May making the same prediction.
While the "Primary Model" hands Trump his reelection, national polls suggest Biden will win handily in November. The Real Clear Politics average shows the former VP besting the sitting president by 8.7 points. In the latest Fox News poll, Biden has a 12 point lead over Trump.
The president's polling has taken quite the hit in recent months amid the coronavirus outbreak and increased racial tensions following the death of George Floyd.

Biden could be 'most progressive president since FDR,' Sanders predicts

Just days after Joe Biden declared that he would "transform" the country if elected, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders predicted Wednesday that Biden could become the "most progressive president" since Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Sanders' remarks came as a task force set up by the two former rivals released a wide-ranging set of recommendations for the party’s convention platform.
"The compromise they came up with, if implemented, will make Biden the most progressive president since FDR," Sanders told MSNBC. "It did not have, needless to say, everything that I wanted, everything that Biden wanted."
Sanders added that there was a "real honest effort" to find a compromise between left-wing supporters of Sanders, and establishment Biden backers.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) cast doubt on the level of effort involved in the task force, however. RNC spokesperson Steve Guest noted that the Biden-Sanders task force had lifted numerous passages word-for-word from Sanders' previous platform.
"The fact Joe Biden has embraced Bernie Sanders’ radical agenda verbatim is proof that while Bernie may not be the one leading the Democrat Party, Biden is more than happy to be his champion in its lurch to the left," Guest tweeted, before taking a shot at Biden's previous plagiarism scandals: "Bottom Line: Joe Biden has years of experience copying from others, now his task force is straight up copying from Bernie’s 2020 campaign proposals."
The Democratic Party has, indeed, shifted to the left in recent months, and there are indications Biden is on board with the new progressive wing. For example, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., on Tuesday called for dismantling America's "system of oppression," citing the country's economic and political systems; the Biden campaign didn't respond when asked by Fox News if the former vice president agreed with Omar.
Other Democrats introduced a bill this week that would defund prisons, eliminate live sentences, and allow undocumented immigrants to vote and provide them with free "lifetime education." Biden recently said money "absolutely" should be directed away from police departments.
However, while the proposals lay out a progressive road map for the former vice president, the document falls short of the ambitious plans pushed by Sanders and other candidates during the Democratic primaries.
The health care task force spotlights ways to expand coverage by strengthening the Affordable Care Act, which was Biden’s position during the primaries, rather than pushing for a single-payer "Medicare-for-all" health care system, a signature policy goal for Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.
But the climate change task force -- co-chaired by progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and former Secretary of State John Kerry -- calls for a faster timetable to achieve net-zero carbon emissions than Biden has previously advocated for, instead of the Ocasio-Cortez-championed Green New Deal to overhaul environmental policy.
The freshman congresswoman and member of the so-called Squad tweeted: "I do believe that the Climate Task Force effort meaningfully & substantively improved Biden's positions."
The panel was appointed by Biden and Sanders after the populist senator from Vermont dropped out of the race and endorsed the former vice president. Its mission -- following a primary season where the sharp policy differences between the more moderate Biden and the populist Sanders and Warren were on display -- was to find common ground in six key areas: climate change, criminal justice reform, the economy, education, health care and immigration.
“I commend the Task Forces for their service and helping build a bold, transformative platform for our party and for our country. And I am deeply grateful to Senator Sanders for working together to unite our party, and deliver real, lasting change for generations to come,” Biden said in a statement.
Sanders, in a separate statement, acknowledged that “the end result is not what I or my supporters would have written alone.” But the senator added that “the task forces have created a good policy blueprint that will move this country in a much-needed progressive direction and substantially improve the lives of working families throughout our country."
Fox News' Morgan Philips contribued to this report.

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Ilhan Omar has paid $878G to new husband’s consulting firm, data show: report

When U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar got remarried in March following her divorce, the Minnesota Democrat tied the knot with a man who was a member of her political consulting team.
Now, campaign data show Omar has paid Tim Mynett’s consulting firm a total of more than $878,000 since 2018 – including $189,000 just weeks after the couple announced they were husband and wife, the New York Post reported.
In the first quarter of this year, Mynett’s E Street Group has received more than $292,000 from Omar’s campaign for digital advertising, fundraising consulting and research services, the Star Tribune of Minneapolis reported in April, citing data from the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
Payments for 2019 totaled more than $500,000, the Star Tribune reported.
Omar’s campaign is her husband’s firm’s biggest client by far, Open Secrets data suggest – with E Street Group receiving about one-third of all the Democrat’s campaign cash, the Washington Examiner reported.
The arrangement is possible because of a 1960s federal anti-nepotism statute that prohibits members of Congress from hiring relatives for government jobs – but does not block family members from doing campaign work, a former chief ethics lawyer from the administration of former President George W. Bush told The New York Post.
“It should not be allowed,” attorney Richard Painter said. “I think it’s a horrible idea to allow it, given the amount of money that goes into these campaigns from special interests.”

“It should not be allowed. I think it’s a horrible idea to allow it, given the amount of money that goes into these campaigns from special interests.”
— Richard Painter, former White House ethics lawyer

Other lawmakers with spouses doing campaign work for them include U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa., and U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., the Post reported.
Neither Omar nor her husband’s firm immediately responded to the Post’s requests for comment, according to the newspaper.
A Virginia-based conservative group called the National Legal and Policy Center filed a complaint against Omar last year, after it was disclosed that Omar and Mynett were lovers. The group sought an FEC investigation.
If the FEC does investigate, Omar and Mynett will have to prove that Omar is paying market-based rates for E Street Group’s services, without the prices being inflated “to fluff up their income,” Washington-based political lawyer Cleta Mitchell told the Post.

Omar claimed on Twitter in March that she and Mynett received an OK from federal authorities to continue their business relationship.

“We consulted with a top FEC campaign attorney to ensure there were no possible legal issues with our relationship. We were told this is not uncommon and that no, there weren’t,” Omar wrote.
Some of the details of the couple’s financial arrangements came to light in 2019 when Mynett’s then-wife filed divorce papers – alleging her husband and Omar were having an affair despite both of them being married to other people at the time.
Omar, a mother of three, initially denied the affair, the Post reported.
In the court paper’s Mynett’s former wife alleged that his business was “floundering” and he was “nearly broke,” the Post reported.

Why the media raced to cover Trump, NASCAR and the Confederate flag

With so many vital issues swirling across the political landscape, the press secretary’s briefing was dominated by one topic.
It began when NBC’s Peter Alexander asked: “Why is the president so supportive of flying the Confederate flag?”
And other than a handful of questions on the coronavirus, reporters followed up again and again and again.
This was triggered by President Trump’s Monday tweet, which instantly eclipsed his holiday speeches and prompted such Republican loyalists as Lindsey Graham to distance themselves:
“Has @BubbaWallace apologized to all of those great NASCAR drivers & officials who came to his aid, stood by his side, & were willing to sacrifice everything for him, only to find out that the whole thing was just another HOAX? That & Flag decision has caused lowest ratings EVER!”
A few points: NASCAR’s only fulltime black driver didn’t initiate the probe of a noose found in his stall, which turned out not to have been targeted at Bubba. NASCAR’s ratings aren’t down. And the president was clearly critical of the league’s decision to ban the Confederate flag at its races.
The torrent in the briefing room continued:
“Kayleigh, to follow on Peter’s question, what is the president's position?  Does he think NASCAR made a mistake by banning the Confederate flag?”
“But let’s drill down on the Confederate flag.  Does he think it was a mistake for NASCAR to ban it?”
McEnany said “the president said he wasn’t making a judgment one way or the other.  You’re focusing on--”
“But what is his position on it?
“--one word at the very bottom of a tweet that’s completely taken out of context and neglecting the complete rush to judgment on this.”
There was more:
“Wasn’t he saying that NASCAR’s ratings were down because they banned the flag? That’s what he said.”
“Has he considered banning the Confederate flag from Trump rallies?”
“And just to follow up on the NASCAR thing,” a reporter read the Trump tweet. “How are we misinterpreting that?”
“I’m not going to answer a question a sixth time.”
“But you haven’t answered that question.”
“Kayleigh, what exactly does the president see as positive or uniting then about the Confederate flag?”
“Why can't this White House unambiguously state whether or not it supports displays of the Confederate flag?”
Now it would be easy to say the media are utterly obsessed with this issue. It fuels the journalistic narrative that the president is stoking white resentment with his attacks on angry mobs and left-wing fascism, not to mention his threat to veto a major defense bill if it renames bases that honor Confederate generals.
What’s more, the reporters were frustrated by McEnany’s repeated insistence that Trump has no position on displaying Confederate flags.
But most of all, the contretemps reflects the president’s decision to drive the news cycle through Twitter.
Since that social network is the primary way he communicates with his 83 million followers, Trump has the power to change the national conversation with a couple of sentences. Sometimes this chokes off positive coverage he had been getting, to the dismay of his advisers, and sometimes it helps him turn the page from negative coverage.
But the White House can’t very well complain that journalists are creating a distraction when they covering the president’s own words, not when he has used Twitter to make major announcements, push policies, attack opponents and otherwise generate headlines.
There are many well-documented instances of Trump stunning his top aides by tweeting a big decision that they thought they were still debating.
National Review Editor Rich Lowry, who slammed media coverage of Trump’s July 4 speeches as unfair and unhinged, posted this: “Step 1) Deliver an excellent speech. Step 2) Step all over it with a stupid and indefensible tweet.”
McEnany, for her part, chose to end the briefing with this scolding of her press corps:
“I'm a little dismayed that I didn’t receive one question on the deaths that we got in this country this weekend.  I didn’t receive one question about New York City shootings doubling for the third straight week. And over the last seven days, shootings skyrocketed by 142 percent. Not one question. I didn’t receive one question about five children who were killed.”
That’s a fair point. The carnage in New York, Chicago and other cities, including fatal shootings of young children, has been devastating.
Maybe journalists consider urban violence a decades-old tragedy that is limited to the worst neighborhoods. Maybe they’re more focused on the pandemic, the economy and the election. Maybe they don’t want to take on the Democratic mayors who run most of these cities. Maybe they find it a depressing and intractable problem.
Perhaps that would change if President Trump tweeted about it more--and proposed some solutions.

DeVos, Education Dept. face 5-state lawsuit over coronavirus relief plan for schools

California, Michigan and three other states – plus the District of Columbia – are suing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her department, opposing what they say is a plan to take coronavirus relief funds away from K-12 public schools and divert the money to private schools.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced the lawsuit Tuesday. The three other states joining the suit are Maine, New Mexico and Wisconsin.
“Today's announcement is about stopping the Trump administration's latest effort to steal from working families to give it to the very privileged," Becerra said, according to The Associated Press.
“Unfortunately, this most recent action by Secretary DeVos is really just another example in a long history of an administration that uses any and every opportunity available to tip the scales in favor of private schools at the great expense of our public schools,” Nessel said at a separate news conference, MLive.com reported.
“Instead of ignoring congressional intent and diverting funds away from public schools, Secretary DeVos should follow the law,” Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul said, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Becerra claimed the Education Department was unlawfully interpreting the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, which established guidelines to distribute $13.2 billion in aid to schools nationwide using Title I funds earmarked for students from low-income families.
The department's interpretation will instead allow school districts to get funds based on their total student population, leading tens of millions of dollars to be diverted from public schools in the poorest districts to private institutions with tuition similar to that charged by private colleges, the lawsuit says.
Education Department press secretary Angela Morabito said that while the department does not comment on pending litigation, “the secretary has said many times, this pandemic affected all students, and the CARES Act requires that funding should be used to help all students.”
On a call Monday with Vice President Mike Pence and the nation’s governors, DeVos said governors have not taken advantage of the funding and so far only $195 million has been used.
Under the rule issued by DeVos, school districts are ordered to set aside a portion of their aid for private schools using a formula based on the total number of private school students in the district.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies during a hearing of a House Appropriations Sub-Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 27, 2020. (Associated Press)

The policy has been contested by public school officials who say the funding should be shared based on the number of low-income students at local private schools rather than their total enrollments. That’s how funding is shared with private schools under other federal rules that Congress referenced in the legislation creating the relief aid.
But DeVos has said the funding is separate from other federal aid and was meant to support all students.
Becerra said the rule “creates a false choice where school districts must include private schools on the basis of their total population or be forced to jump through unnecessary hoops to do what Congress intended and make sure the funds get to schools that are hurting the most.”
He said it could put some of $1.6 billion allocated for California public schools at risk.
In Michigan, officials said the rule could cost public schools at least $16 million, including $2.6 million each in Detroit, the state’s largest district, and Grand Rapids, where DeVos has roots.
Michigan state schools Superintendent Michael Rice said nonpublic schools there are entitled to $5.1 million under the relief law but would get $21.6 million under one of two options outlined under DeVos’ policy.
“The U.S. Secretary of Education manufactured guidance and their rule that favored nonpublic schools at the expense of public schools in a way neither intended nor enacted by Congress,” he said.
In Wisconsin, Kaul said the DeVos rule would divert nearly $4.2 million "away from taxpayer-funded public schools in our poorest school districts to private institutions — in violation of the requirements established by Congress, the Administrative Procedure Act, and the U.S. Constitution."
The Associated Press contributed to this story.

Hannity warns NYPD officers to retire or find new work, because NYC 'is ... giving you the middle finger'

Sean Hannity blasted New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Tuesday, blaming their liberal policies for America's largest city descending into "chaos."

"Comrade de Blasio, well, he's done a lot of things, a lot of horrible things that's destroying New York City. It's costing many lives," Hannity said on his television program. "The anti-crime plainclothes police officers in the NYPD, that unit has been disbanded, is completely eliminated [as is] the effective policy that we call 'stop and frisk.' He cut the NYPD budget by over a billion dollars and now state lawmakers might force police to buy their own personal insurance for liability lawsuits."
Hannity advised NYPD officers to either retire, if possible, or find other work since city officials are "basically giving you the middle finger."
"I guess my only advice, if I'm going to be a friend to the people I love -- frankly, adore and admire -- for their sacrifice, service and the risk they take for all of us: I guess if you're a cop and you can retire, now is the time," the host said. "If you're new on the job, you might want to think about another job.
"New York City is basically giving you the middle finger and they're also making it impossible to do your job to protect and ... serve your local community."
Hannity then turned his wrath on Cuomo and the state's recently enacted bail reform law.

"Meanwhile, far-left Gov. Andrew Cuomo, well, he signed off on that insane, idiotic bail reform policy. He's the one that signed the bill that allows violent offenders to get out of jail the exact same day without posting a penny in bail. Nothing whatsoever," Hannity said. "In other words, the consequences of these soft on crime policies [mean] it is now dire in New York City and state ...
"What's happening in New York is the direct result of de Blasio and Cuomo's failed policies," he concluded. "When laws are not enforced, when police budgets are slashed, when cops are not supported, when criminals get out of jail without any bail, chaos, carnage, predictably, will always ensue. Always. It's not a hard mathematical formula."

Berkeley students planning fraudulent course to circumvent ICE rules, avoid deportations

Hundreds of students at the University of California, Berkeley are discussing a plan to create an in-person course solely to circumvent new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regulations that could result in the deportations of international students on F-1 visas  -- and they say at least one faculty member is on board, Fox News has learned.
The plan, which could run afoul of immigration law if enacted in its current form, was hatched hours after ICE announced Monday that foreign students in the country are required to take some in-person instruction or they will not be allowed to legally remain in the country.
"berkeley students are creating a 1-unit, in-person, student-run class to help international students avoid deportation due to the new ICE regulations," a Berkeley Urban Studies student wrote in a now-deleted tweet, which has been archived by Google. "love my school sometimes."
The tweet was shared more than 25,000 times before it was taken down. It linked to a longer Facebook post stating that a member of the Berkeley community had "found a faculty member who will sponser [sic] this."
The Facebook post clearly declared that the proposed course was not intended to serve a broader educational purpose for the student body, and "is ONLY for students who are international and need a physical component to remain in the United States." A syllabus was being drafted, according to the post.
The post also stated that the course would "likely" be run "through the anthropology department," although the specifics of the course's substance and subject matter didn't appear to concern most Berkeley students discussing the matter online.
The longer post has been shared thousands of times on various Berkeley-related social media groups, including several that are publicly available. Academics with ties to Berkeley, including Deborah Miranda, have spread news of the course on their own Facebook accounts -- saying it's a "work-around" to beat the ICE rules. (Miranda falsely said in a post that the ICE regulations would affect "Dreamers"; they would in fact affect students with F-1 visas.)
However, some students noted that the plan might not work.
"F-1 students are only allowed to take one course in an online modality each semester, unfortunately," observed Tiffany Earley Spadoni, an Assistant Professor at University of Central Florida. "I don't think offering a one-credit hour course will meet the administrative requirements. But it is great to see creative solutions being discussed."
"Looks like one other possible solution will be to see if the univ can make them all sign up for an outdoor PE class," suggested another user, Florinda Ruiz.
Berkeley is well-known as among the most left-leaning institutions of higher learning in the United States. Last month, Berkeley's chancellor mourned the murder of a white student by noting that most of the campus was upset about the death of George Floyd -- a statement that drew widespread criticism, even as top Berkeley officials doubled down. And last year, a Berkeley instructor called rural Americans "bad people" who deserve "uncomfortable" lives.
Berkeley did not immediately respond to Fox News' requests for comment about the apparent plan to circumvent immigration regulations. Berkeley is a public institution that receives taxpayer funds for research and education. The plan being discussed by students would have a substantially different purpose, as it would create an in-person course for a narrow subset of the university's population while most classmates attend class remotely.
The ICE’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program released a statement on Monday that said students in the U.S. who are enrolled in schools that plan to operate solely online this fall “must depart the country or take other measures, such as transferring to a school with in-person instruction to remain lawful status. If not, they may face immigration consequences including, but not limited to, the initiation of removal proceedings.”
Fiona McEntee, an immigration lawyer, told NPR that ICE's move “makes no sense.”
“If students can study online successfully from an academic point of view, why are we forcing them to come into a situation where they could put their health at risk and also the health of their classmates at risk?”
ICE did not immediately respond to an after-hours email from Fox News. The Wall Street Journal reported that these students cannot take all of their courses online if their college offers a mix of on-campus options.
The U.S. is working to contain recent coronavirus outbreaks in states like California and Texas and schools are working to determine how best to approach the upcoming school year. Schools like the University of Southern California announced earlier this month that it would not resume in-person instruction for the fall semester.
“Given the continuing safety restrictions and limited densities permissible on campus, our undergraduate students primarily or exclusively will be taking their courses online in the fall term,” the school said in a statement. “On-campus housing and activities will be limited.”
Foreign students taking online courses who are seeking visas will not be issued them, reports said.
Lawrence S. Bacow, the president of Harvard, said in a statement that he is “concerned” about the new guidelines, according to the Harvard Crimson. He said the guidelines seem to be a “blunt, one-size-fits-all approach to a complex problem.”
The Crimson reported that the school announced Monday that it would hold all courses online. The Washington Post reported that schools are working to determine the impact of the new guidelines. Schools have reportedly been told to respond by July 15 about how they are going to approach the fall semester.
“What is just, to me, absolutely staggering is we have been asking for this guidance since April,” Lizbet Boroughs, associate vice president of federal affairs at the Association of American Universities, told the paper.

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