Don't the parents of both public and private schooled children pay the same taxes?
Looks like outright religious discrimination by a franciscatholic politician.
Posted on 12/04/2020 7:38:32 PM PST by marshmallow
Mayor Bill de Blasio defended not paying for COVID-19 testing at the city’s Catholic schools on Tuesday.
The Archdiocese of New York filed a lawsuit last month arguing that state law required City Hall to fund coronavirus screening.
While on-site testing is being provided at public schools, Catholic officials said they are being shut out.
Asked about the ongoing case on Tuesday, de Blasio contended that city lawyers have a differing view of the state law.
The city is appealing a ruling last week by Justice Wayne Ozzi of the state Supreme Court that they must furnish and fund testing for both private and public school students.
“We believe the law is clear that it is not the city’s obligation to provide the actual testing service,” de Blasio said, adding that he has discussed the matter with Timothy Cardinal Dolan.
“Our obligation right now is to continue the process of having New York City public schools be open and healthy and safe,” he said.
In an op-ed this weekend, Michael Deegan, superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of New York, accused City Hall of repeatedly impeding the ability of Catholic schools to access COVID-19 related funding.
Deegan highlighted that parochial schools were able to open for full-time learning and suggested that City Hall was unnerved by that achievement.
“I wouldn’t want to believe that some in city government would see our success as a threat and are thus doing whatever they can to thwart us,” he wrote. “But it’s hard to avoid that impression after what the DOE has put us through.
De Blasio argued that he is rightly focused on tending to students in the largest public school system in the country amid a budget crunch.
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Everybody hates Bill De Blasio.
Mister Rodgers says,
“Lets’s put on our slippers and kick Bill De Blasio in the nads!”
***While he defended the city’s resistance to funding Catholic school testing, de Blasio said agencies would assist them with the process.
“We’ll give them a helping hand every time we can,” he said.***
Ri-I-I-G-H-T-T!!!
Sounds like a lovers spat.
Don't the parents of both public and private schooled children pay the same taxes?
Looks like outright religious discrimination by a franciscatholic politician.
Stories like this show that the Covid paranoia is total BS.
Yup!
Evil man
Apparently, Heinrich DeBlasio dislikes Cathoics as much as he hates Jews, ya think?
Well, the kids don’t NEED testing, so who cares?
Ask his wife....she’s running things.
i didn’t think Dolan could get any more fatter.
Of course communist Mayor DeBlasio won’t help any religious institution/organization or have a St. Patrick’s Day parade.
He’s a damned psychopathic communist, hates white people except leftist asskissers, and wants to destroy every institution that is a brick-in-the-wall of a safe and democratic American society.
Criminal government at it yet again. How many Catholics are responsible for this since they vote for democrats? Plenty is the answer.
JoMa
Honestly, I never cared much for New York City nor it people, but the fact that De Blasio is destroying the city is sad. Not necessarily tragic. But sad.
This is just a taste of the Christian persecution coming should Joe and the ho take the reins in January.
Three guesses how Kaiser Wilhelm won that last election, the one with supposedly record low turnout...
Can you say dry run, boys and girls?
I knew you could!
Rich and powerful Democrapts continue to show their hatred for believing Catholics. And makes me wonder why those folks continue to elect Dems who are now anti-Catholic or anti- believing Catholics, i.e. those who have not joined their secularized Protestant brethern?
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