President Trump delivers his 2019 State of the Union address.

The White House Coronavirus Task Force encouraged schools to resume in-person instruction based on local coronavirus conditions, a day after President Trump threatened to withhold funding to schools that did not reopen in the fall. The federal government contribution to public schools’ total funding – which is set by Congress, not the president – averages less than 10 percent and mainly supports students with disabilities and those from other minority groups.