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Biden admin targets DeSantis ban on mask mandates, offers cash to Florida school districts defying governor
foxnews.com ^ | Aug. 14, 2021 | Brie Stimson

Posted on 08/14/2021 7:31:19 AM PDT by PROCON

DeSantis has said parents should decide whether their children wear masks in school and banned school mask mandates in an executive order

The Biden administration this week offered federal financial support to Florida school districts defying Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ban on mask mandates as the coronavirus surges in the state, according to reports.

U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona wrote in a letter to DeSantis and state Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran on Friday that defiant districts that lose state funding would have federal funds available to them, according to Politico.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: biden; desantis; education; mandates; masks; miguelcardona; schools
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Interfering with state's governor's orders just shows how tyrannical these democrats are.
1 posted on 08/14/2021 7:31:19 AM PDT by PROCON
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Correction: DemonRats


2 posted on 08/14/2021 7:33:36 AM PDT by D Rider ( )
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Several stares should declare their independence from the US. Allow a six month period for people to apply for citizenship and the newly formed independent States should be very selective about who is let in. Drain the beast of talent and producers and let it starve. I think you would be surprised how many people would leave.


3 posted on 08/14/2021 7:35:59 AM PDT by RBW in PA
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Shouldn’t the Biden administration be focusing on the unfolding Afghanistan disaster?

Bidens wandering around his beach house like the mayor of amity mumbling I don’t want this job. I’m an influence peddler I don’t know how to handle this. Where’s my cornflakes. Where’s trump can’t we blame him can’t he fix this.

Harris is where?


4 posted on 08/14/2021 7:37:34 AM PDT by stanne
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Interfering with state's governor's orders just shows how tyrannical these democrats are.

And their actions have an air of desperation. They want absolute control.

5 posted on 08/14/2021 7:40:59 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: PROCON

Time for TEXAS to secede and for about 26 states to join them.

Control OUR borders & stop the invasion & other nonsense.


6 posted on 08/14/2021 7:41:24 AM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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People can still wear a mask in FL, right? Nothing wrong with wearing a mask. It’s the federal overreach that’s the issue here. This is not about science. It’s about power. Science is the flog that they use to get power.


7 posted on 08/14/2021 7:44:19 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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Pallets of cash.


8 posted on 08/14/2021 7:45:07 AM PDT by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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To: PROCON

“Sedition for me, but not for thee.”


9 posted on 08/14/2021 7:49:50 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: PROCON

DeSantis should have his .dept of .education send a bill to any district accepting those funds to recover the bribe money.


10 posted on 08/14/2021 7:58:29 AM PDT by georgiarat (A legal System that isn't applied equally has no moral authority.)
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This is simply ridiculous. I expect DeSantis will be in
court fighting against this kind of unconstitutional action
by the biden admin. A lot of good that will do though, the
biden admin simply ignores Supreme Court rulings i.e., the eviction moratorium.


11 posted on 08/14/2021 7:59:22 AM PDT by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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Simple, fire the educational bureaucrats who take the money. The rat teachers can go work for the feds.


12 posted on 08/14/2021 8:02:59 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (Welcome to leftist Planet Lab Cage where are YOU are the rat)
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I do not agree with Biden’s dictatorial actions here but DeSantis is doing b things no differently than Cuomo only from a different side. Here on Long Island parents publicly opposed Cuomo’s mask diktat. Local school boards refused to enforce it. Conservatives cheered. Now local school boards in Fla many with support of parents want to require masks in their district’s schools and the governor threatens sanctions. Two governors. Two states. Both wrong.


13 posted on 08/14/2021 8:08:37 AM PDT by xkaydet65 ( )
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"People can still wear a mask in FL, right? Nothing wrong with wearing a mask. It’s the federal overreach that’s the issue here. This is not about science. It’s about power. Science is the flog that they use to get power."

You sound like a desperate toddler trying to talk to parents that are throwing away their pacifier. "But mommy, I need my pacifier!"

You "followed the science" all right, the old science of propaganda is leading you. Just how many masks has "the science" compelled you to buy?

14 posted on 08/14/2021 8:09:12 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (Welcome to leftist Planet Lab Cage where are YOU are the rat)
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Better yet de-certify any school district that mandates masks. Close the schools and provide education vouchers for the students. Advertise this well in Dvance and see how fast the counties comply. Where they don’t, close the schools and terminate the teachers. We also need to bust the teachers unions, but good, once and for all.


15 posted on 08/14/2021 8:12:42 AM PDT by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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The Socialists are terrified of DeSantis .


16 posted on 08/14/2021 8:20:46 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists are the real danger )
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To: ridesthemiles

Yes!


17 posted on 08/14/2021 8:37:18 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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They spent years trying to muddy up the entire Trump family. DeSantis is going to get the attack’s non stop.


18 posted on 08/14/2021 8:37:33 AM PDT by cnsmom
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Now local school boards in Fla many with support of parents want to require masks in their district’s schools and the governor threatens sanctions. Two governors. Two states. Both wrong.

I'm aware some sources say that masks on children make little difference, but I believe they can be quite harmful, in that young children have more difficulty learning facial expressions if everybody is masked. Maybe you have heard different about the whole facial expressions problem, but as of right now, I believe that Cuomo is wrong, and DeSantis is right.

19 posted on 08/14/2021 8:40:36 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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My dentist told me the masks are a disaster for your teeth and mostly gums and are useless .


20 posted on 08/14/2021 8:44:26 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists are the real danger )
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