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Posted on 09/11/2021 6:33:59 AM PDT by rarestia
The Department of Education said it has opened a civil rights investigation into whether Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is violating the rights of disabled students with his executive order banning mask mandates. On Friday, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights issued a letter to state Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran. The document said th DOJ was ''opening a directed investigation'' into whether the statewide ban on mask requirements in schools ''may be preventing school districts in the state from considering or meeting the needs of students with disabilities.'' The letter, from Suzanne Goldberg, the Education Department’s acting assistant secretary for civil rights, went on to say, ''OCR’s investigation will focus on whether, in light of this policy, students with disabilities who are at heightened risk for severe illness from COVID-19 are prevented from safely returning to in-person education, in violation of Federal law." Said Goldberg, the inquiry will consider if Florida is "preventing schools from making individualized assessments about mask use so that students with disabilities can attend school and participate in school activities in person," as is their right. The DOJ action came on the same day that the First District Court of Appeals reinstated the governor's ban on school mask mandates. It had been blocked by a circuit judge. DeSantis has maintained his ban exists because the decision on whether children mask up in classrooms belongs to their parents and guardians.
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NO AUTHORITY."
Two more words:
So, what?
These asshats have shown the ability to get away with any damned thing they want.
There are enough federal judges that they can find one to uphold their ridiculous lawlessness, and a Supreme Court that rejects too many cases that would put them in an uncomfortable spotlight.
Big Ed is evil.
IF THAT
I think it's on the next page after where it says that the CDC can impose rent moratoria...
They can still wear a mask if they want to so D’oh
How would that violate the rights of disabled students? The biden administration is insane with hatred for anything Republican.
Are conservatives still on about Defunding the Department of Education?
They should be. Literally all it does is promote woke politics and the hugely corrupt cycle of ever-rising tuitions and debt enslavement of students.
He should have the state patrol arrest any Department of Education investigators that come into the state. Let’s get this party started.
Civil rights to be muzzled?
What the hell is with all these sheepish traitors?
They’re saying that the civil right is that EVERYONE they encounter must wear a mask.
Which shows that this should fail.
You cannot insist on a right that violates another’s right.
Nothing like a little lawfare...
And, speaking of arrest warrants…I was saying years ago that mayors etc should be arrested for blatantly defying fed law on illegals.
And then the riots came which mayors sanctioned. Also should’ve been arrested.
Easily said in Florida.
Handicapper General wants to be in charge, but turns out, the Governor is.
The Department of Education has become a civil rights violation of the first order. Dissolve it yesterday.
The argument will probably me made that, by not forcing all to wear masks we are forcing potential infections on the general pubkic. The safety god thrives on this stuff. God forbid anyone should ever be at risk.
An easy fix would be school choice.
But we can’t have that, can we?
And geeze, is their ANY department or bureaucracy that doesn't have a "civil rights" division?
They finally have something better than peanut allergies to bring out their despotism.
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