While some blue states struggle to reopen schools, Florida's have been open for months

As blue states and the Biden administration grapple with what they describe as a challenge to reopen schools, Florida has had its schools open for months -- and its governor is promising that there will be no backtracking.

Florida was one of a number of states that kept schools open in the fall, even as some blue states and cities -- under heavy pressure from powerful teachers unions -- failed to give their public schoolchildren in-person education. Studies have shown schools to be of limited risk of COVID spread, particularly when precautions are followed, and countries across the globe -- including in Europe -- opened schools with limited issues in the fall, although some, like the U.K., have seen some closures amid intense outbreaks.