Ron DeSantis Gloats Over Mask Mandate Ban As Kids Die At Record Rates “As DeSantis celebrates his mask mandate ban being upheld, child COVID deaths have more than doubled since school began in August.” 🤬🤬🤬
. “It is a big number. It is a bruising statistic that we need to absolutely internalize,” Miami-Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho told them.
Regardless of DeSantis’ temporary win in the courts, school districts are continuing to fight back to protect students and staff. “We will continue to implement our current face covering policy. Our school board will continue to review that policy in an upcoming meeting because the decision is based on the moment of now and what is occurring on boots on the ground, our local community,” Broward Interim Superintendent Vickie Cartwright told reporters during a press conference Friday afternoon.
That means the state can effectively punish local educators for trying to protect their students as they return to classrooms amid “a variant that’s more infectious and more dangerous to children than the one we had last year,” as Florida judge John Cooper put it last week when he overturned DeSantis’ ban on school mask mandates.
The Florida Department of Education is already withholding state funding from Broward and Alachua counties which equates to the same amount of their school board members’ salaries. In response, the Biden administration announced his administration is developing a grant to cover fines or other funds withheld from school districts over current or future mask policies.
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