Nassau County Govt Bruce Blakeman is ramping up his feud with Gov. Kathy Hochul over masking in faculties.
Blakeman criticized Hochul on Wednesday for threatening to take away any county board members who transfer to scrap the masks requirement.
Arguing that masking stays a essential COVID-19 safeguard, Hochul additionally pressured her willingness to yank funding from resistant districts.
“I’ve heard from various faculty board members that say they want to make masks optionally available,” Blakeman informed The Put up. “However they're afraid the governor will take away them and lower funding to high school districts.”
Blakeman issued an government order final week ostensibly allowing boards to undo the state’s faculty masking requirement.
However Hochul shortly asserted that faculties are certain by state legislation and that she anticipated them to stay in compliance.
“At what level are you going to let children return to regular and study in an atmosphere the place they don’t must be masked on a regular basis?” Blakeman requested. “I discover it fascinating that she's going to threaten faculty board members however has a district legal professional in Manhattan who refuses to uphold the legislation and isn't threatening him. She ought to not less than be constant.”
Whereas some Nassau faculty boards expressed curiosity in making masks optionally available — together with Massapequa and Island Bushes — none have formally sought the change.
Unwilling to face funding cuts, Blakeman stated he doesn’t anticipate faculty boards to pursue adjustments to the masking guidelines.
“We don’t need funding for our children to be lower so I perceive why they're reluctant to do what they wish to do and what dad and mom need them to do,” he stated.
Hochul asserted final week that Blakeman’s order would show ineffectual and solely add to COVID-19 dangers in faculties.
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