First Florida College District Gets US Cash for Virus Veil Vote

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida college district has received money from President Joe Biden’s administration to invent up for allege pay cuts imposed over a board’s vote for a pupil anti-coronavirus masks mandate.

Alachua County college Superintendent Carlee Simon talked about in a news begin Thursday the district has received $148,000 thru a U.S. Department of Education program.

Simon says Alachua, where Gainesville and the College of Florida may per chance well well be found, is the well-known district in the nation to bring collectively such a grant.

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and allege training officials own begun cutting salaries paid to varsity board individuals in Florida who voted to require masks for college students. DeSantis favors allowing oldsters to evaluate whether or no longer their kids wear face coverings and is in the middle of court battles over this broader project.

In Alachua County, the pay reductions up to now for four college board individuals who voted for the masks mandate amounted to $27,000, Simon talked about.

“With these grants, we’re guaranteeing colleges and communities across the nation which may per chance well well be dedicated to soundly returning to in-particular person discovering out know that we now own got their backs,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona talked about in an announcement.

About a dozen college boards in Florida, representing bigger than half of the allege’s college students, own voted to defy the allege ban on masks mandates despite the DeSantis resolution to come to a decision out a pair of of their funding.