While President Joe Biden has met his school reopening goal almost a month ahead of schedule, data indicates his policies did nothing to accelerate a reopening trend that was already underway when he took office. An effort to reopen the majority of schools within his first 100 days was among Biden’s core promises prior to taking office. When he finally put forward the specifics in mid-February, he said that meant having “close to” the majority of K–8 grades opened for in-person instruction five days a week by the end of April. That goal has already been met, according to data from Burbio, a community tracking firm that crunches publicly available data collected from 1,200 school districts, representing 35,000 schools, in all 50 states, according to its website. By March 8, more than 51 percent of grades K–8 were open for traditional in-person instruction, although looking at middle-school grades only, less than …