Arizona governor rewards schools that put kids in danger with no mask mandates.
Arizona’s Democratic House Minority Leader Reginald Bolding called the move by the Republican governor a “sickening irony.”COVID-19
relief and forcing school districts to choose between the health and safety of kids and educators, or millions in additional funding that Republicans have withheld for years,” Bolding said in a statement. “With the delta variant running rampant and COVID-19 cases among children on the rise, it’s disgusting to put a bounty on spreading this illness to kids and punishing schools that try to operate safely.
Ducey is not alone in his callous crusade to make sure kids go unprotected as children’s Covid hospitalization rates . Texas, Florida, Arizona, Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah have all banned mask mandates in schools.on the governors of these states — all Republicans — by using the Education Department’s civil rights enforcement division to investigate states that ban local officials from implementing mask mandates.
“We’re not going to sit by as governors try to block and intimidate educators protecting our children,” Biden said.
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