Florida judge strikes down order to reopen schools for in-person classes
Source: Axios
A Florida judge on Monday struck down an emergency order from the Florida Department of Education that would have required all schools to reopen for in-person learning this month, the Tampa Bay Times reports.
Why it matters: Leon County Judge Charles Dodson ruled that Florida had "essentially ignored the requirement of school safety" in pushing to reopen schools, and that the state's order overrode school boards' constitutional authority to make decisions for their school systems, per the Times.
What he's saying: "The districts have no meaningful alternative," Dodson wrote, according to the Times. "If an individual school district chooses safety, that is, delaying the start of schools until it individually determines it is safe to do so for its county, it risks losing state funding, even though every student is being taught.
"An injunction in this case will allow local school boards to make safety determinations for the reopening of schools without financial penalty. This is what the local school boards were elected to do.
Read more: https://www.axios.com/florida-schools-reopen-judge-faccd976-ee22-4836-a6ea-5429ad2dbe4f.html
hlthe2b
(102,359 posts)from the scores of lawyers around him that this would be the result, or are those lawyers as arrogantly ignorant as those which surround Trump?
Stallion
(6,476 posts)Death Sentence won't stand for that
progree
(10,918 posts)Scroll down to the "Cases and deaths by state and county" table.
Sort it by the per 100,000 column that follows the cases in last 7 day column
Though they have made huge progress from astronomically high levels
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/florida-coronavirus-cases.html
Cases, 7 day moving average
July 17: 11,870
Aug. 23: 3,879
down 67%.