In a tweet posted on July 8, 2020, President Trump said he "disagree[s]" with guidance issued by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on reopening schools and universities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The CDC found that the full reopening of schools present the "highest risk" for the spread of COVID-19, and outlined a range of measures to mitigate such risks, including broad testing of students and staff. President Trump's tweet labelled the mitigation measures as "impractical." In other public statements, President Trump and others in his administration said that all schools in the U.S. should re-open in the fall of 2020, directly contradicting CDC advise that the decision of whether to re-open a particular institution should be made by state and local officials, based on "what is feasible, practical, and acceptable . . . [in] each community."