{"id":180993,"date":"2021-10-14T12:05:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T12:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/florida-education-commissioner-urges-biden-admin-to-quit-illegally-meddling-in-state-covid-policies-for-schools"},"modified":"2022-10-13T22:56:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T22:56:11","slug":"florida-education-commissioner-urges-biden-admin-to-quit-illegally-meddling-in-state-covid-policies-for-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/florida-education-commissioner-urges-biden-admin-to-quit-illegally-meddling-in-state-covid-policies-for-schools","title":{"rendered":"Florida Education Commissioner Urges Biden Admin To Quit Illegally Meddling In State COVID Policies For Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran on Wednesday ripped the Biden administration for unlawfully meddling in the state&#8217;s education policy for mask mandates.Corcoran maintained in a letter that the U.S. Department of Education, in the typical tyrannical, ham-handed style the administration is known for, had overstepped its boundary by funneling money to local school officials who implement COVID-related masking policies for children.Corcoran did so by quoting the department&#8217;s own words back to officials in Washington.Gov. Ron DeSantis, in accordance with Florida law, has threatened to withhold funding for local educators who don&#8217;t allow parents to opt-out of masking policies. Tallahassee would retain the amount equal to their salaries until they change the policy.In the letter, Corcoran noted that the federal Education Department created a grant initiative dubbed Project SAFE to skirt this provision of state law.As the commissioner wrote, federal law says that nothing in the statutes &#8220;shall be construed to authorize an officer or employee of the Federal Government, including<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran on Wednesday ripped the Biden administration for unlawfully meddling in the state&#8217;s education policy for mask mandates. Corcoran maintained in a letter that the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,1],"tags":[96,59,42,60],"class_list":["post-180993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-education","tag-health","tag-politics","tag-public-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}