Florida Gov. DeSantis threatens to hold school leaders’ pay if they require masks: ‘Financial consequences’
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As students in many Florida counties headed back to school Monday, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis threatened to stop paying superintendents and school board members who defy his executive order banning classroom mask mandates.
In a statement Monday, DeSantis said district-level officials who implement covid-19 policies requiring masks for students could be subject to “financial consequences.”
“For example, the State Board of Education could move to withhold the salary of the district superintendent or school board members, as a narrowly tailored means to address the decision-makers who led to the violation of law,” said the statement from DeSantis’s office to CBS Miami and other news outlets.
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