Some Florida school districts push ahead with mask mandates, defying DeSantis's threat to cut funds

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Some of Florida’s largest school districts have announced they will either keep or issue new mask mandates in light of the coronavirus outbreak that is ravaging the state, challenging an order by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) threatening to withhold funds from school districts if they mandate that students wear face coverings.

At least four school districts in the state are pushing back against the governor’s staunch opposition to new virus restrictions or mask mandates after he issued an executive order Friday saying that recent guidance from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that students wear masks “lacks” scientific justification and warning that the government could withhold state funds from “noncompliant” schools.

The school districts’ resistance comes as the nation grapples with a surge of infections and hospitalizations linked to the delta variant of the coronavirus. It has prompted a nationwide debate on what measures should be implemented for children, particularly those under 12, who are not eligible for vaccination in the United States, as schools return to in-person learning in August, with several Republican governors opposing or blocking mask mandates.

Broward County Public Schools, the second-largest district in Florida and the sixth-largest in the country, announced Wednesday it will keep its mask mandate and await “further guidance before rendering a decision on the mask mandate for the upcoming school year.”

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[IrishAfricanAmerican]

1. YES!

[Ligyron]

2. I hope Palm Beach County is one of them.

Pretty sure it is. In your face Trump and de satan

[obamanut2012]

6. It will be

[Chainfire]

3. Good, force his hand.

See what it does for his popularity to start sending State Troopers to arrest school administrators. He wants to be a Nazi, lets see him prove his credentials to be the *RNC choice for President.

As a Floridian, it feels to me that DeSantis is getting close to overplaying his hand. Some of his past supporters are now going, "Say what?"

* Republican Nazi Committee

[PortTack]

4. An attorney in FL published a clip that said it's in the FL constitution that public schools are to

Be funded. If that’s the case, his EO is garbage

[obamanut2012]

7. It is, it is a constitutional mandate

Plus, imagine defunding school districts, especially the three biggest ones in the state. Political suicide.

[obamanut2012]

5. I love a red and purple county did it first

Then blue counties. Some backchatter, I bet.

[Stuart G]

8. DeSantis has sealed his own political fate..He is as stupid as his hero, Donald Trump...