Posted on 12/15/2021 6:06:47 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
class-action lawsuit was filed Dec. 13 by 88 teachers and school staff from across Illinois in opposition to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s COVID-19 school mandates on vaccination, testing and masks.
The governor signed an amendment to Illinois’ decades-old Health Care Right of Conscience Act Nov. 8 allowing employers to discipline employees for refusing to comply with COVID-19 rules. The amendment was intended to narrow the law and deny it as a legal argument to groups such as the 88 teachers, but the changes do not take effect until June 1, 2022.
The bill and its various proposed amendments spurred opposition by more than 86,000 Illinoisans.
Pritzker justified the change as clarifying “the legislative intent of the Health Care Right of Conscience Act so that it cannot be abused or misinterpreted to jeopardize workplace safety.”
(Excerpt) Read more at illinoispolicy.org ...
Through the VA I finally got to go to a chiropractor this week ...Ive seen him before earlier this year so he knows Im unvaxxed and I suspect he is also ...
He told me yesterday that he and other doctors have been told by the VA that they will need to be vaxxed to treat veterans and that they plan to just refuse to deal with the VA at that time ...
I told him we veterans are expecting to have a vax mandate at some time for treatment with the VA ...
Frankly Im surprised Joe hasnt insisted that for veterans and seniors...
But of course, never for illegal aliens or the Afghans ...
Hoping the wind will blow him to another state.
He'll dock our pay
Stay home
In three days irate mamas will be all over him like 17 year olds being sent to Viet Nam.
FOLKS .... LOOK IN THE MIRROR AT YOUR POWER !
—”Hoping the wind will blow him to another state.”
I’m not sure if an EF-5 tornado could blow him to the next county?
Take a look at gov fatso’s wiki page, under Business career; six lines of not much!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Pritzker
His only actual accomplishment was signing on to a lawsuit to break the family trust.
teachers don’t want vaccinations but they’ll sure tape masks to the faces of kids
adults are supposed to protect kids, not the other way around
Remember when the teachers wanted all the students to be vaccinated before they would return to in-person teaching. Now that it is them, they are squealing like little piglets.
Biden Dangles New Federal Funds For Schools That Defy Mask Mandate Bans! September 9, 2021 5:31 PM ET Anya Kamanetz
On Thursday, President Biden announced a series of actions aimed at getting control of the surging pandemic. Alongside new vaccine requirements for private businesses, he announced new steps to encourage K-12 schools to mandate masks for all, require vaccines for employees and step up testing for COVID-19.
Coronavirus safety measures like these have become political flashpoints, and nowhere more than in schools. There have been violent confrontations at school board meetings over mask requirements, and states including Florida, Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Utah have all tried to stop districts from requiring masks. This comes as the highly contagious delta variant is causing a rise in cases among young people, and those under 12 are still not eligible for vaccines.
Biden Lays Out Plan To Mandate Vaccines Or Testing For Millions Of Workers
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The United States has a long tradition of local control and funding of its 13,000-odd school districts. The federal government has limited oversight powers, and provides around 8 % of total funds spent on public schools. However, the president seems to be leaning heavily on both the carrots and sticks he does have. The actions announced on Thursday include:
Some districts are opposing their states to strengthen COVID-19 safety measures. Alachua and Broward counties in Florida, for example, recently defied the governor to require masks in schools. Now, President Biden promises to fill in any gaps in funding that result. This goes above and beyond the $122 billion set aside for school reopenings in the American Rescue Plan. According to the White House, “Local school districts will be able to apply to the Department of Education in the coming weeks to restore funding withheld by state leaders ... when a school district implemented strategies to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 in schools.” The Department of Education announced that the new grant program will be called Project SAFE (Supporting America’s Families and Educators), and it will be funded under Title IV of the Every Student Succeeds Act.
Teachers and staff directly employed or funded by the federal government — including those at U.S. Department of Defense schools, Bureau of Indian Education-operated schools and Head Start and Early Head Start preschool programs for children in poverty — are now subject to a vaccine requirement. This requirement covers nearly 300,000 school staff serving more than 1 million children.
Biden’s plan also highlights his intention to use the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights to go after states that, in the federal government’s view, discriminate against students with disabilities by banning mask mandates. There are already investigations open in five states.
Education Dept. Announces Civil Rights Investigations Into 5 States’ Mask Mandate Bans
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Education Dept. Announces Civil Rights Investigations Into 5 States’ Mask Mandate Bans
In addition, Biden’s plan calls on states to require vaccines for all school employees. There was no reward or sanction explicitly attached to this effort. For now, the president is simply “asking” states to follow the example of places like California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Washington, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
Impossible. Pritzker weighs 240 lbs.
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