Education Secretary Smacks Down Ron DeSantis' Attempt To Punish School Districts For Defying Him
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona lashed out at Republican Florida governor Ron DeSantis this week, saying that the Department of Education would take care of any school district that gets punished for implementing mask mandates, while also suggesting that banning these mandates was illegal. DeSantis has no logical reason to ban the mandates - the decision is purely political and therefore likely won't hold up in court. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.
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Education secretary Miguel Cardona came out this past weekend and basically issued a warning to Republican governors that are threatening to punish school districts for implementing mask mandates. And of course, we all know exactly who Cardona is talking about. He's talking about Florida's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, because even though he is not the only Republican governor that has implemented bans on mask mandates, he is the only one who is actively working to punish school districts who put mask mandates in place in direct defiance of him. And education secretary Cardona says this isn't going to fly. First of all, Cardona says, we're pretty sure this is illegal anyway, that you do not in fact have the authority to do this, following up on Biden's threat last week to sue people like Ron DeSantis for putting these orders in place.
But Cardona also went out and said, listen, we have your back. School districts who lose your funding because DeSantis is following through with that now, um, he said, we're going to give you your money. So you don't need to worry about that. You do what you have to do to protect these students. In fact, he said, we have to do everything in our pow
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