A recent Raleigh visit by Vice President Mike Pence highlighted the push by the administration for a return to in-person schooling. | Stock photo
A recent Raleigh visit by Vice President Mike Pence highlighted the push by the administration for a return to in-person schooling. | Stock photo
Vice President Mike Pence brought the administration's campaign push to reopen K-12 public schools at full capacity continued in Raleigh on July 29.
The vice president visited the Thales Academy and a company called NCBiotech during his trip to the state capital, the WBT reported.
Pence participated in a roundtable discussion at Thales Academy about the recent return to in-person instruction by the school, WBT reported. Thales Academy began efforts to return safely return to in-person education on July 20 with the admission of 300 students to the campus.
Pence followed the Thales Academy visit with a tour of NCBiotech, a company that is in Phase 3 clinical trials of a vaccine for the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, where he discussed the administration’s push to create a coronavirus vaccine through Operation Warp Speed.
The visit came as President Donald Trump and U.S. Education Secretary Betsy Devos recently said they would withhold federal funding from schools that do not return to in-person instruction, according to the article.
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