(Steve Straub) Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is not a man to be trifled with.
Source – The Federalist Papers
by Steve Straub, October 27th, 2021
He warned local school boards not to institute mandatory masking rules yet many did not listen and went ahead and forced masks on little kids anyway.
No DeSantis is hitting back, as promised, and stripped several school boards of federal funds:
Via Politico:
The Florida Department of Education this week stripped local school boards of federal aid money over their masking policy, directly defying the Biden administration, which cautioned the state against the sanctions.
Florida officials yanked the federal grant money for Alachua and Broward counties that was meant to offset penalties for enacting a local mask mandate just one day after the U.S. Department of Education warned that the move would violate requirements in federal law, a clear sign that the state and feds are still at odds over Covid-19 policies.
School leaders in Alachua claim the state made the cuts to their October budget before the federal money even arrived, taking funding away from supporting students.
“I am appalled that the state would penalize the district by pulling funding we have not even received,” said Carlee Simon, Alachua County Public Schools superintendent, in a statement Wednesday.
The move by the state signals that there’s no conclusion in the fight between Gov. Ron DeSantis and local school districts that have attempted to implement mask requirements. At one point during the summer, the conflict has pitted the governor against 13 school districts — including five that were in GOP-leaning counties — as well as the Biden administration, which had promised to financially support school districts that faced financial penalties for enacting mask mandates.
Currently, only a handful of school districts, including Alachua and Broward counties, are attempting to require masks in schools. Other counties reversed course after facing penalties from the state and seeing Covid-19 caseloads decline.
The U.S. Department of Education claims that pulling the federal grants from school boards would lead to Florida “failing to comply” with federal requirements in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. But Florida education officials classified that message as “harassing and legally hollow,” indicating the state would move full speed ahead with sanctioning school boards with mask mandates.
The Florida Department of Education on Tuesday deducted $164,505 from Alachua’s October budget allocation, a total that includes the monthly salary of school board members and the entire share of a $147,717 grant promised by the Biden administration, Simon said.
We applaud this decision by the Florida Governor and wish other Republicans had as many guts as Ron DeSantis does.
Ron DeSantis is a man of his word and his political adversaries would be wise to learn that lesson sooner rather than later.
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