Nikki Fried calls on White House to stop Florida from withholding funds from school districts with mask requirements

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Eight Florida School districts are weighing their options aft being recovered retired of compliance with a authorities disguise regularisation requiring a parental opt-out.

Six districts filed an administrative ailment this week challenging the rule, and arsenic Mike Vasilinda tells us, the State’s Agriculture Commission is accusing the authorities of playing games implicit schoolhouse masks.

The administrative complaint, which has yet to beryllium scheduled, says the Department of Health exceeded its authorization due to the fact that the regularisation is astir protecting parents’ rights, thing not successful DOH’s jurisdiction.

Leon Superintendent Rocky Hanna is 1 of the plaintiffs. “One, we judge it’s an overreach of authorization by the Department of Health. That they person operated extracurricular what is statutorily allowed for them to bash with a genitor opt-out. That’s not their area. Their country is to support radical harmless and healthy. And fig two, we judge we are operating nether the Parents Bill of Rights” Hanna told america Friday afternoon.

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Duval County would not remark connected the pending litigation,  but it did accidental successful a connection it has a work to supply a harmless situation for learning.

Gubernatorial hopeful Nikki Fried sided with the schoolhouse districts, again, telling reporters: “Governor DeSantis, halt playing politics.”

On Friday, Fried called connected the White House to proceed backfilling schoolhouse territory budgets to marque up for fiscal sanctions astir to beryllium imposed by the Commissioner of Education.

“I’m calling connected the White House and the US Department of Education to usage the afloat value of the national authorities to halt the DeSantis medication from defunding our schools,” Fried said.

The disguise regularisation was adopted connected Sept. 22, conscionable days earlier a erstwhile regularisation was astir to spell to proceedings astatine the Division of Administrative Hearings. And erstwhile the caller regularisation was adopted, the erstwhile situation was stopped successful its tracks.

There is thing to halt the authorities from changing the regularisation again close earlier a hearing.

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When asked astir it, Fried said: ”Stop playing games. Let’s bash this right.”

Like Duval County, the Department of Health said it could not remark connected pending litigation.

A circuit tribunal justice threw retired the disguise mandate arsenic unconstitutional, but the ruling was enactment connected clasp by the First District Court of Appeal, which has yet to see the case.

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