'You can't do that': Fox News host Wallace confronts DeVos on threat to redirect funds from schools

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said Sunday there was no danger in sending children back to school amid the coronavirus pandemic and stood by a threat to withhold federal funds from schools that do not resume in-person classes.

"There's nothing in the data that suggests that kids being in school is in any way dangerous," DeVos told "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace. "We know that children contract and have the virus at far lower incidence than any other part of the population, and we know that other countries around the world have reopened their schools and have done so successfully and safely."

President Donald Trump has also pointed to other countries that had successfully reopened their schools, specifically citing Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden in a tweet last week.

Wallace pointed out that those countries have far fewer daily cases of COVID-19 than the U.S.

"Is it really fair, is it reasonable to compare the situation in countries that have 20 new cases in a day with a country that has 68,000 new cases in a day?" he asked.

"Well, we're talking about schools and other countries' experiences with reopening schools. And it has been shown to be very successful," DeVos said.

"But schools happen in an environment," Wallace replied. "If there's 30 cases in a country, that's very different than a place where it's out of control and there are 70,000 new cases in a day."

Though cases are on the rise in nearly every state, DeVos said the places that are "out of control" were "the exception." She said that when hot spots do appear, they have to be "dealt with differently."