On Monday, the day many Florida students headed back to school, Governor Ron DeSantis threatened to withhold the salaries of school administrators who impose mask mandates
What, me worry? Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images As Florida contends with a massive surge in COVID cases, Governor Ron DeSantis seems devoted to making it more difficult to stop the spread in public schools.
Many Florida school districts have indeed imposed mask mandates, but most are unlikely to run afoul of DeSantis, since they provide carve-outs for parents who don’t want to comply. Christina Pushaw, a spokeswoman for DeSantis, said on Twitter that the penalties DeSantis is threatening wouldn’t apply to such schools. Those that require a doctor’s note to opt out, though, could be in the crosshairs.
Florida, meanwhile, is getting slammed with the virus. Though it is more vaccinated than many states in the South, with about 50 percent of its population fully inoculated, it is seeing its biggest surge cases throughout the pandemic, with upward of 20,000 a day, per the CDC. It is also experiencing record hospitalizations.
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