Florida penalizes Alachua, Broward school districts in mask standoffs

[Zorro]

Source: Tampa Bay Times

The announcement Monday came after Leon County Circuit Judge John Cooper on Friday ruled that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ overstepped his constitutional authority in prohibiting mask mandates.

TALLAHASSEE — Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran announced Monday that the state Department of Education has withheld funds from the Alachua and Broward county school districts in amounts equal to school board members’ monthly salaries.

The move was a penalty for the school boards requiring students to wear masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, with exceptions only for students whose parents submit doctors’ notes. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order July 30 that sought to prohibit local school districts from enacting student mask mandates.

The governor’s order triggered a Department of Health rule that said parents must be able to opt out of such mandates. On Aug. 20, the Department of Education issued orders threatening to withhold funding equal to the salaries of four Alachua board members and eight Broward board members who voted for the mandates.

Corcoran’s announcement Monday came after Leon County Circuit Judge John Cooper on Friday ruled that DeSantis’ overstepped his constitutional authority in issuing the executive order.

Read more: https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2021/08/30/florida-penalizes-alachua-broward-school-districts-in-mask-standoffs/

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. How much worse does DeSantis want to make the problem?

When can you hold a governor accountable for disregarding science and killing thousands of people?

[IronLionZion]

9. He'll accept that challenge

he's quite malicious and proud of it

[lark]

13. No, he wants them to get sick and get monoclonal antibodies so his friend & him profit.

Their profits go down when we are healthy so he's insuring the dying, because nazi money is everything to him and our lives mean nothing at all, since we aren't rich & can't give him tons of $$$.

[rso]

2. Death Santis

The US Secretary of Education has stated that the feds would make up any funding that Death Santis takes away.

[rdking647]

3. send federal troops in to arrest desantis

its time to physically remove him....

[ancianita]

4. Fascist Florida.

[bluestarone]

5. I think dept of education might have made a big BOO-BOO

Here. After a judges ruling?

[monkeyman1]

7. FLORIDUH IS A BIG DAMN BOO-BOO !

[NCjack]

6. Nationalize Florida's Department of Education. Send in feds to operate it.

If Corcoran and others get in the way, Gitmo them.

[OAITW r.2.0]

10. I think this is appropriate.

DeSantis has proven himself incompetent to run the Florida School System.

[keithbvadu2]

8. DeSantis, arrest them if they are breaking the law.

DeSantis, arrest them if they are breaking the law.

Are you afraid to?

[vsrazdem]

11. Doesn't the Federal Wage and Labor Board have something to say about this.

I have a feeling it is illegal to withhold wages. If they are doing their job, they are being paid a wage.

[Chainfire]

17. The story says that he withheld money equal to the salaries.

That is different than withholding the salaries. It was a sneaky way to do it to avoid breaking wage and hour law.

[vsrazdem]

18. Got it. Thanks.

[Moebym]

12. Dr. Miguel Cardona probably hadn't expected

to become a general of sorts in a war against murderous GOP governors when he became Education Secretary.

[obamanut2012]

14. He literally has no way to do this

Forget that it's illegal, against the Florida Constitution, and a Judge said he can't do all of this. He literally has zero mechanism to hold county-level salaries. That money is from the county, not the state.

[Lasher]

15. Biden said he would pay them.

[Blues Heron]

16. Imagine siding with a deadly virus against children

yet that's what we're seeing in real time. He doesn't want kids to be protected from a deadly virus. It's practically inexplicable.

[Chainfire]

19. DeSantis made the wrong decision early on. Instead of admitting it, he keeps doubling down.

What is disturbing it that he is still polling in positive numbers. It makes me ashamed to be a Floridian.

[Stuart G]

20. He may be polling in positive numbers now, but maybe not later.

...If it becomes clear that he caused children to get sick and possibly die because of his stupidity..
...I guess he is like his hero: Trump, and is not willing to admit a..... mistake.

...Oh there is that word again.....Like is that why they have erasers on pencils,...and there is a delete key on the computer...

...Oh, that is right...no delete key just...Backspace key...and it automatically deletes it.

.....Delete key ..= Backspace Key....Oh, I might add this the ...backspace key..is my favorite key on my computer!!

[Chainfire]

23. We are leading the country in Covid, directly to his ass backward leadership

Floridians are dropping like flies. We are having to borrow morgues! He is waging biological warfare on our children I am beginning to wonder if he would poll poorly if he nuked Dizzy World. Apparently we have more "Florida Men" and "Florida women" than I realized.

[BlueWavePsych]

21. Education Department probing 5 states over mask mandate bans

In letters to education chiefs in Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Utah, the department's Office for Civil Rights said the bans could discriminate against students with disabilities or underlying medical conditions.

https://www.axios.com/covid-mask-mandate-bans-education-department-7de4a5b9-93ca-4ab7-a425-5461f4a116a6.html

[Cha]

22. KR

[Mysterian]

24. Punished for protecting children

Florida has become an idiocracy.