.MaddowBlog: Florida's Republican governor threatened the salaries of school superintendents who created mask requirements. That didn't work out well for him.
added DeSantis has the authority to"levy hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines against school districts" -- a step the Republican could still theoretically take -- but it would be up to local school officials to cut their own pay, which seems extraordinarily unlikely.as to how we arrived at this point, as COVID-19 cases in Florida soared last week, and hospitals faced a brutal crunch, DeSantis took swift action -- by barring school districts from requiring masks.
When some Florida school superintendents moved forward with plans to require masks anyway, the governor's office issued a public warning,To their credit, some local superintendents said they were more concerned with the public-health crisis than the Republican's political agenda. Indeed, Carlee Simon, the schools superintendent in Alachua County, wrote a, explaining,"[W]e don't have the luxury of ignoring the current crisis to score political points.
Simon's piece went on to explain why she's adopted universal masking for schools in her county, concluding,"I value life too much to take chances with the lives of others, even under the threat of retaliation. As our school board chair has so aptly put it, better a loss of funding than a loss of lives."soon after,"At no point shall I allow my decision to be influenced by a threat to my paycheck."What's less clear is what, if anything, DeSantis will do next.
But it probably wouldn't be an especially smart move for a politician who appears to be gearing up for a re-election campaign and a presidential bid. It'd be a tough sell for DeSantis to effectively tell voters,"My administration punished school districts in my state for trying to stop the spread of a virus during a pandemic."
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