professional repudiation. even charges of racism from the supposed experts so now what? white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. the department of energy overseas national labs and now reportedly concludes a lab leak in china most likely caused the pandemic albeit that conclusion with low confidence. but, this theory became a political lightning rod after former president donald trump embraced it and top scientists shot it down. now, team biden is holding back of talk about lessons learned and also, responding to china s denials. china has repeatedly blocked the world health organization s covid origins probe and now is swiftly rebuking the reported findings from the u.s. department of energy. china s foreign minister saying in part a laboratory origin of the pandemic was considered to be extremely unlikely is a science-based authoritative conclusion reached certain parties should s
proficient in math. school districts in other major metros are seeing declines post pandemic as well. in denver, only 28% of fourth gragraders were proficient in mh which is better than d.c., new york, l.a., philadelphia, or detroit, which had just 3% of its students at grade level according to the national assessment of educational progress annual report card. i think most people don t realize just how much ground students have lost and not don t realize what it s going to take to help kids catch up. while many districts have released plans to tackle the learning loss. harvard education researcher thomas kaine says most are not doing enough to get students back up to speed from months and years of learning loss during the pandemic despite receiving $190 billion in aid from the federal government cabs research how far behind loss instruction time during the pandemic. there are a lot of kids getting a s and b s right now who by any metric are far behind