The Daily Populous Monday August 23rd, 2021 day edition
Authored by politico.com and submitted by RazielJD

Public schools who want to institute mask mandate rules can't be denied federal funds, even if their state governments try to pressure them out of mask mandates, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said.

The Florida state government threatened to withhold funds for schools in Broward and Alachua counties if they imposed mandatory mask rules. But the Biden administration has proposed using federal funds to make up the difference, with Cardona specifying Sunday that the schools "do not have to get the green light for [their] governor to use these funds."

"We have to do everything in our power to keep them safe," Cardona said on NBC's “Meet the Press.“ "I spoke to the superintendents of those two communities and I let them know that we have their back. And yes, they can draw down on the funds that were promised to them so they can safely reopen schools."

Ambitious_Reporter38 on August 23rd, 2021 at 02:18 UTC »

The Department of Education needs to mandate vaccines for all school personnel and students 12 and up.

NeoMegaRyuMKII on August 23rd, 2021 at 02:10 UTC »

I know this horse has been beaten to death and then beaten while dead many times over, but could you imagine what would have happened under a secretary of education appointed by Tweetle Dumb? I imagine the FIRST step would not only have been that states could withhold federal funds from districts with mask mandates, but that the federal government itself would withhold funds from districts/states that have mask mandates.

red_fist on August 23rd, 2021 at 01:56 UTC »

Can the federal government withhold funds from states recklessly endangering students?