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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Thu Aug 5, 2021, 07:39 PM Aug 2021

Florida 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 don’t 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 wouldn’t 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.

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Florida students may get school vouchers to avoid wearing masks (Original Post) Zorro Aug 2021 OP
The FL Constitution does not allow him to not fiund school districts obamanut2012 Aug 2021 #1
this is just ridiculous Skittles Aug 2021 #2
Destabilizing his schools. Whattaguy. lindysalsagal Aug 2021 #3

obamanut2012

(26,068 posts)
1. The FL Constitution does not allow him to not fiund school districts
Thu Aug 5, 2021, 07:52 PM
Aug 2021

So, I hope Palm Beach County reconsiders their reconsidering and gies back to masks required.

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