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After months of legal challenges, heated school board meetings, and confusion among parents, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill earlier this month that prohibits schools from mandating masks for students. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona attacked DeSantis' policy.
When our faculties specifically are not able to come because of not being vaccinated and they get ill, it has a huge impact on the system. so we're running into just the logistics of needing to run our business and our organization. we need people healthy and we need people at work. and because of how fast this disease is spreading we can have multiple people who need to quarantine for an extended period of time, and it really impacts our human resources. >> do you know what percentage of teachers are not vaccinated? >> we don't. we're in the process of getting the actual information from the ...
A doctor's note will be required to opt out. also breaking tonight a new poll that suggests florida voters may be at odds to governor desantis' opposition to mask mandates in schools. 60% of florida voters say they support requiring teachers and students to wear masks, 36% oppose. just this week two districts say they'll not comply with the governor's order for parental opt-out. the state board of education is threatening to withhold school board members' pay. and as part of their responses the school boards in broward and -- counties forwarded information about members' salaries, demonstratin...
Give people -- parents who want a mask mandate a choice of schools. because that's not on brand. that's not on desantis' warped idea of his brand. and it's -- there's no bottom. this is a new low. but we know by now it can go lower. >> we're in an age where the cops who protected the capitol are being called actors and superintendents of schools are having their salaries threatened by trying to protect their children from the pandemic. this is where we are with the covid republican party. >> it's breathtaking. if we stop and absorb what dr. simon told us, trying to protect her children in scho...
And the language of the rule making didn't speak to that. similarly, to the opting out component, and so, i believe that, again, this is a coin that has two sides. so if non-mask optional -- or people who want a mask optional are allowed to use this voucher, i don't see why people who want a mask mandatory couldn't as well. >> what a mess. >> yes. what a mess. dr. simon, i read some of the names that you've been called here. this is really a twisted and perverse situation. i'm wondering how you are doing and what are you hearing from parents in the community? what are you hearing from people? ...