{"id":207951,"date":"2022-01-25T17:26:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T17:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/virginia-governor-youngkin-says-nearly-1-in-5-school-systems-are-refusing-to-follow-his-ban-on-mask-mandates"},"modified":"2022-01-25T17:26:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T17:26:40","slug":"virginia-governor-youngkin-says-nearly-1-in-5-school-systems-are-refusing-to-follow-his-ban-on-mask-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/virginia-governor-youngkin-says-nearly-1-in-5-school-systems-are-refusing-to-follow-his-ban-on-mask-mandates","title":{"rendered":"Virginia governor Youngkin says nearly 1 in 5 school systems are refusing to follow his ban on mask mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOP Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin The Washington Post Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said about 1 in 5 of the state&#8217;s school systems are defying his order that bans school mask mandates and &#8220;aren&#8217;t recognizing the rights of parents today.&#8221; Youngkin &#8212; a Republican who banned mask mandates on his first day in office earlier this month &#8212; said he was &#8220;not surprised&#8221; by the resistance from roughly 25 of Virginia&#8217;s 130 school systems. &#8220;Oh, by the way, they haven&#8217;t been recognizing the rights of parents all along,&#8221; Youngkin said during an interview with right-wing radio host John Fredericks on Monday. &#8220;I am not surprised at all to hear these reactions from school boards that have consistently prioritized bureaucrats and politicians over the rights of parents.&#8221; Youngkin added, &#8220;This is a small group of counties that are not recognizing parents rights. We have a very large group of counties that are.&#8221; The governor said that his administration will continue to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youngkin &#8212; a Republican who banned mask mandates on his first day in office earlier this month &#8212; said he was &#8220;not surprised&#8221; by the resistance.<\/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":[1],"tags":[96,42],"class_list":["post-207951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-education","tag-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207951","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=207951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}