The move would primarily impact urban districts in Democratic-leaning parts of the state.
would amend the budget proposed in the state House, shifting funding from the dozen primarily urban school districts that had mandates at some point in the pandemic toward the 55 districts that did not.
His proposal, called the “Putting Parents First Adjustment Deduct,” passed the Florida House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday. Fine says the funding would not come out of teachers' salaries or impact student programs, adding it would solely impact school administrators making $100,000 or more, who he calls"bureaucrats."Pushaw told the newspaper limiting impacts to administrators was critical to winning the governor's support, since she said those are the ones who were"actually making the political decisions to force-mask children.
“It is intended to reward the 55 school districts, the overwhelming majority of which followed our state law and respected the rights of parents over the past year,” Fine said last week. for the school year, but several school districts chose to ignore the order as the delta variant surge led to a record spike in Covid hospitalizations and deaths in Florida.