Wed Feb 23, 2022 – 5:16 pm EST
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (LifeSiteNews) – Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis endorsed slashing $200 million in education funding from a dozen counties that defied the state’s ban on mask mandates in public schools, adding that parents deserve compensation for the harms done to children by such mandates.
The Tallahassee Democrat reported that the House gave preliminary approval to the penalty as part of a $105.3 billion state budget for the coming year. Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Leon, Alachua, and Volusia would be among the impacted counties.
Specifically, the proposal by Republican state Rep. Randy Fine cuts the funds in the targeted jurisdictions that pay the salaries of administrators making more than $100,000 a year. Those education dollars would then be redistributed to Florida’s remaining counties.
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) February 15, 2022
“Most students didn’t want to wear masks in the first place!” DeSantis said. “Let’s also give parents recourse for harms imposed on their kids due to this defiance. They should get compensated for academic, social, and emotional problems caused by these policies.”
They shouldn’t have broken the law by force masking children against parents’ wishes.
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