Florida’s Department of Health on Monday announced that it is withholding funds from two school districts that defied Gov. Ron DeSantis’s order banning mask mandates. “Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran announced that the Florida Department of Education has withheld the monthly school board member salaries in Alachua and Broward County, as directed by the State Board of Education,” the department said in a statement. After the Republican governor on July 30 issued an executive order aimed at preventing school districts from mandating masks for students, the state health department issued a rule that gives parents the right to opt out of mask requirements for students. A Florida state judge on Friday ruled that the state had no authority to enforce De Santis’s order, and barred his administration from withholding funds over mask mandates. School boards in Broward and Alachua counties have mandated masks in schools in defiance of DeSantis’s executive …
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