Alachua, Broward schools face $500K state funding cut equal to federal grants awarded
School Board members decry a political tit for tat on the 'backs of kids.'
Easy come, easy go?
In another head-spinning development in the battle between state administration officials and defiant school boards over COVID-19 protocols, the state’s top school official is recommending stripping aid from two school districts in an amount equal to the federal grant the districts received as recently as last week.
Broward public schools had been awarded a $420,957 grant from the U.S. Education Department last week and Alachua County Schools got $148,000 on Sept. 23 from the Project Safe Grant. The federal grants were designed to aid school districts facing penalties from Republican-led states for having COVID-19 mitigation policies that require students to wear masks.
Both districts were having state aid withheld in an amount equal to School Board members’ salaries for their mask policies, but the federal grants more than made up for the losses so far.
Not so fast, said state Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran, according to Monday memos to the state Education Board posted on the department’s site.
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