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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFlorida students may get school vouchers to avoid wearing masks
TALLAHASSEE A week after Gov. Ron DeSantis promoted a tough policy banning mandatory masks at Florida schools, state education leaders Thursday looked poised to endorse a softer stand in the face of an uprising by some school districts.
Hope Scholarship vouchers would be made available to parents who dont want their children wearing masks in school districts that require them, under a proposed policy set for review Friday by the state Board of Education.
With the scholarship, parents who want to avoid mask mandates could transfer their kids to another public school, or get taxpayer-funded seats in a private school where they wouldnt have to wear face coverings.
The move by the DeSantis administration seems to acknowledge he may not have the authority to reverse recent action by school boards in Duval, Broward and Alachua counties to require masks, and a push by Leon County School Superintendent Rocky Hanna to mandate masks when students return to class next week.
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/politics/state/2021/08/05/desantis-signals-softening-tough-stand-against-mask-mandates/5498226001/
Rewarding vaxxhole parents who want to avoid school district mask mandates is such a DeSantis thing to do. This insanity will not stop until DeSantis is out of office.
obamanut2012
(26,068 posts)So, I hope Palm Beach County reconsiders their reconsidering and gies back to masks required.
Skittles
(153,150 posts)just wrong in SO MANY WAYS
lindysalsagal
(20,678 posts)Whattaguy. I Hate florida.