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right now school officials in miami-dade county are considering a mask mandate in schools they say to protect kids from contracting and spreading the sploeding delta variant after the florida board of education appointed by governor desantis voted unanimously to punish two counties for enforcing mask mandates. threatening broward and alachua school officials with slashed funding or cut salaries or even termination. cnn's leyla santiago from florida looks at this life or death school yard fight. >> reporter: florida's second largest school district opened its doors to students today amid a fight over mask mandates. broward county, one of two districts that governor ron desantis says is defying his executive order that prohibits schools from mandating masks without a parent opt-out. the state now threatening to withhold salaries from school board members and superintendent who's choose to override that order. >> that's defying the state of florida's laws and the parents'