Posted on 11/10/2021 5:37:43 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order prohibiting mask mandates in schools violates the Americans with Disabilities Act — freeing local officials to again create their own rules.
The order comes after a months long legal dispute between parents, a disability rights organization and Texas officials over whether the state was violating the 1990 law, known as the ADA, by not allowing school districts to require masks. U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel barred Attorney General Ken Paxton from enforcing Abbott’s order.
“The spread of COVID-19 poses an even greater risk for children with special health needs,” Yeakel said. “Children with certain underlying conditions who contract COVID-19 are more likely to experience severe acute biological effects and to require admission to a hospital and the hospital’s intensive-care unit.”
The judge said the governor’s order impedes children with disabilities from the benefits of public schools’ programs, services and activities to which they are entitled.
The advocacy group, Disability Rights Texas, filed the federal lawsuit on behalf of several Texan families in late August against Abbott, Paxton and Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath. It states that the governor’s order and the TEA’s enforcement of it deny children with disabilities access to public education as they are at high risk of illness and death from the virus.
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Cut all state funding from schools that do this.
No, the PA decision was the opposite. The judge found PA couldn’t mandate masking statewide for K-12 because there was no longer a declared state of emergency by the governor.
Democrat. Austin.
That’s quite a stretch, Tour Honor. Congrats on being an integrity-free hack
Fine
We play the game and kep going to court, too
Aside from finally nuking them from orbit
My District has a VERY high number of disabled kids per capita because our special needs ed is world class, but we have no mask mandate for kids, because they are dumb.
Then put a mast on them and leave the other 99% of the population alone "Dr. Yeakel."
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If they just stopped Robin Hooding away $30M of our tax dollars/year I’d rather have that. We fund the state, not the other way around.
Now we find out if the Governor has any real guts...
Ignore the judge just like one of the communist governors would...
Just like obunghole did...
I may have miss read the PA ruling? I was under the impression the mask mandate was eliminated?
We flipped our School board (and made National news doing it), but some areas of TX where NBC news & Dem Politics dominate, its hopeless. Get out.
It absolutely does NO SUCH THING - if anything the mask mandates are a violation of the ADA.
Those with disabilities are still free to wear masks.
Those WITH DISABILITIES THAT CANNOT WEAR MASKS are free to return to school
Rural MO; kids went back to school last Fall, no masks, no distancing, no plastic cubicles. Spent Summer together. They’re back again this year. We’re “undervaxxed” and unmasked. Life is fairly normal. No biggie.
If you live somewhere unlike this, MOVE. Quit giving them money with State/County/City fees, taxes to the Left.
It’s funny how several years on the government payroll turns seemingly decent people into defenders of depravity. It is the height of obscenity and depravity to defend and promote the killing of Holman beings in the womb: Case in point.
Take that sumbich out back and beat the $hit outta him.
No- mask mandate overturned...good ruling
The Lower courts have no standing and only the supreme Court has Jurisdiction in matters where a State is a party to the action, and the supreme Court has to have Original Jurisdiction,the Lower Courts have NO ROLE. Tell the Judge to pound sand, then ARREST Him for Usurping the rights of the citizens of Texas in direct violation of the US Constitution.
If Joe Biden can ignore a court ruling, so can Abbott. Abbott would be an idiot to comply now. All he has to do is to remind everyone of our leader’s actions.
So according to this judge, schools can mandate that every child must wear a mask to protect the relatively few children with certified disabilities because of the ADA. The ADA is why drive up ATMs have Braille on the keypads
Think it was UCLA that had to take down free access to recorded lectures because they didn’t provide closed captioning. This violated the ADA, because deaf students couldn’t use them.
The ADA was passed with good intentions no doubt, but then the road to hell...
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