Posted on 08/15/2021 1:27:52 PM PDT by Enlightened1
DeSantis signed an executive order last month banning mandatory masks in schools and on Monday threatened to withhold the salaries of school board members and superintendents who refuse to comply
In a letter to DeSantis and the Florida education commissioner on Friday, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said that districts have “sole and complete discretion” to pay salaries that are withheld by the state for violating the order.
“We are eager to partner with [the Florida Department of Education] on any efforts to further our shared goals of protecting the health and safety of students and educators,” Cardona wrote. “If FLDOE does not wish to pursue such an approach, the Department will continue to work directly with the school districts and educators that serve Florida’s students.”
Any threat by Florida to withhold salaries from superintendents and school board members who are working to protect students and educators (or to levy other financial penalties) can be addressed using Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief [ESSER] funds at the sole and complete discretion of Florida school districts,” Cardona wrote.
Biden has personally called school districts that have refused to comply with the order to offer his support, according to a report from the Miami Herald.
The New York Post reports that a DeSantis spokeswoman blasted the Biden administration for wanting to spend federal funds “on the salaries of superintendents and elected politicians, who don’t believe that parents have a right to choose what’s best for their children, than on Florida’s students, which is what these funds should be used for.”
As the Gateway Pundit previously reported, the Broward County School Board voted 8-1 on Tuesday to keep its mask mandate in place, in defiance of the order.
“Wearing masks inside schools regardless of vaccine status is required to deal with the changing realities of virus transmission. It is a necessary precaution until children under 12 can receive a COVID-19 vaccination and more Americans 12 and older get vaccinated,” Anna Fusco, the Broward Teachers Union President, said in a statement.
Leon and Alachua counties are also enforcing mask mandates.
so many things wrong with this, I can’t begin to comment.
Yeah they just have millions of dollars laying around to use to fund their whims.
Is Biden at war with the Taliban or the poor people of Florida?
Weaponized government. Far beyond what our Founders would have tolerated.
The Bidens know all about paying people off.
They ought to be forced to use their own money but of course they just steal our money.
He’s at war with every state that is receiving bus loads of diseased illegals.
Biden backs the Taliban, not so much us Floridians.
He thinks money is the answer for everything…
Great use of our money! Oh wait ... I forgot. Taxpayer money isnt supposed to be used for leftwing advocacy funding, at least not quite so obviously.
This needs to go to court now. This sounds like a Constitutional crisis where the Federal Government is opposing states rights on education.
sloppy joe is picking a fight with the wrong person...
this is going to get ugly and entertaining at the same time...
Yeah, our courts are great.
We have a criminal federal government wuth the democrats in control.
“”the changing realities of virus transmission””
The rhetoric is what is changing....
It will.
Odds of getting a favorable outcome? Less than 10%
So Biden is aiding and abetting INSURRECTION against the lawful government of the sovereign of Florida. That sounds like Gitmo time.
It does work. Ask Soros and.....
So when republicans do what democrats want to do, it’s wrong.
But when democrats do it, it’s fine because it’s for our own good.
What stinking lying hypocrites.
There are not words in the English language that I can use on FR to express how I feel about this despicable maneuver.
There are enough pissed off states, I’m surprised not 1 state has called for a Convention of States.
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