Florida Threatens Schools to Get Rid of Mask Mandate, Or Loose Funding

Florida officials are threatening to withhold funds equal to the salaries of school board members if school districts in two counties, Broward and Alachua, don’t immediately get rid of their strict mask mandates. Currently, Florida continues to battle through high hospitalization rates.

The two counties received a warning Friday from the State Board of Education giving them only 48 hours to walk back their decisions to require masks for all students, only exempting those with a doctor’s note. Broward is the states second-largest school, and Broward school board President Rosalind Osgood is standing by the board’s decision, saying the governor was “overreaching his authority.”

Source: NPR