Ron DeSantis' recent executive order banning school mask mandates overstepped his authority.... 11, DeSantis' press secretary, Christina Pushaw, said the state" could move to withhold the salary of the district superintendent or school board members" as punishment.... Mike Fender/ News Herald via USA Today Network Gov....

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announced the move on Tuesday, noting that administrators in Alachua and Broward counties would have

Leanetta McNealy, who chairs the school board in Alachua County, Florida, has seen COVID-19 rock

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Ivy Ceballo/ Tampa Bay Times via ZUMA Wire via Newscom Students and their families fill out paperwork at a back to school health clinic at Middleton High School in Tampa, Fla., on July 31, 2021.... Rosalind Osgood, chair of the Broward County School Board.... Ron DeSantis arrives at a news conference, Aug....

Florida state education officials on Monday began to make good on threats to withhold funding from local school districts that defied Gov.... He said the board members pledged to uphold the Constitution but were not doing so. Meanwhile, a Tallahassee circuit judge on Friday agreed with a group of parents who argued in a lawsuit that DeSantis’ ban on mask mandates is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced.... Over the past week, new cases and hospitalizations have levelled off....

Parents and teachers are on a collision course as schools mandate students wear masks in defiance of state bans in Florida, Texas and Arizona. While governors and state legislatures enshrine the bans in executive orders and laws, school boards are voting to force children to wear masks despite threats of losing funding. The emboldened educational bureaucracy comes amid court injunctions from Democratic judges, urging from Democratic lawmakers, and signals from the White House they would have the

On July 31, a high school custodian died of COVID-19.... Two days later, a custodian at a different high school also died from the respiratory illness.In the last two weeks, 55 students and 50 teachers in the district of nearly 30, 000 students have tested positive for the virus, more than in the previous five months combined.... According to the CDC, 354 Americans age 17 and younger have died from COVID-19 — less than half of the 859 children who died from pneumonia and just a fraction of the

President Joe Biden has said that his administration is prepared to take legal action against governors who block universal mask mandates.“ We’re not going to sit by as governors try to block and intimidate educators protecting our children, ” Mr Biden said in a news conference on Wednesday.... “ If a governor wants to cut the pay of a hard-working education leader who requires masks in the classroom, the money from the American Rescue Plan can be used to pay that person’s salary, ” said Mr Bid