Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said he's in touch with superintendents who are actively defying Florida and Texas governors' orders not to mandate masks in schools and will have their back should they lose state funding.
"I have had conversations with superintendents and they have asked if this goes in that direction, how do we get support? My message is, open the schools safely. We got your back," Cardona told ABC News in an exclusive interview Tuesday after touring P.S. 5 Port Morris, a public school in the Bronx.
"I'm hopeful, I'm optimistic -- and if the adults do their job, our kids will be fine," Cardona said. But states have diverged over what that"job" is along political lines, with many Republican-led states choosing to leave the decision on masks up to students and parents rather than follow CDC guidelines.U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona draws a"Welcome Back" poster with students at P.S. 5 Port Morris in the Bronx borough of New York.
But outbreaks have already been reported in districts that have returned to school, particularly in schools that aren't requiring masks. Hillsborough County Public Schools, which includes the city of Tampa, Florida, announced Monday that 5,599 students and 316 school employees are currently either in isolation or quarantine after COVID exposure at school. The school board intends to discuss implementing mandatory mask mandates at the next board meeting, officials said.
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