POLITICS. Miguel Cardona, Secretary of Education / EFE
This Thursday, the Department of Education paid the salaries of several of the members of the Florida school board who were sanctioned by the state government of Ron DeSantis after imposing mask mandates in schools in the state.
The context: Officials demanded the use of the mask in schools in the days leading up to the start of the new school year. The event aroused the annoyance of the Republican governor, who after losing a lawsuit on the subject, won an appeal that left the last word on the use of the piece by students on the parents’ side.
- The Biden administration provided $ 147,719 to Alachua County school officials to compensate for the reduction in their salaries.
- A total of 11 school districts in Florida require face masks from students, defying the Republican’s point.
What do they say?: “We should thank the districts for using proven strategies that will keep schools open and safe, without punishing them,” United States Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said in a statement Thursday.
- DeSantis’s refusal to apply the mask mandate comes amid the peak of positive cases among children.
- The governor has also refused to push for Biden’s move to require vaccinations for employees of Florida public and private agencies.
Main source of the news: POLITICO
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