O'Rourke: The RGV Leads Even if the Governor Won't
Just as kids in the Rio Grande Valley began to return to school this week, we learned that child Covid hospitalizations had tripled in Texas since just before Christmas.
While Texas is sending more children to the emergency room for Covid than any other state, Governor Abbott continues to interfere with schools and local leaders who are trying to do their job to keep their communities safe.
It’s such a dangerous way to lead a state that has already lost over 76,000 Texans to Covid, including over 6,000 in the RGV alone, especially as local officials struggle to prevent more sickness and death as the highly contagious Omicron variant overwhelms hospitals.
Given all of this, I’ve been thinking a lot this week about the Hidalgo County school board members from PSJA ISD and Edcouch-Elsa ISD that I met with back in November. Those courageous local leaders are taking part in a lawsuit led by six RGV districts against Governor Abbott’s anti-public health order that prohibits schools from requiring masks in the classroom.
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