Judge nixes challenge to ban on Florida school mask mandates

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The authorities of Florida’s prohibition connected coronavirus disguise mandates successful schools volition enactment successful effect.

A justice connected Friday dismissed a lawsuit from respective schoolhouse districts challenging the rule. Administrative Judge Brian A. Newman rejected the lawsuit from Miami-Dade, Leon, Duval, Orange, Broward, and Alachua counties.

It recovered the medication of Gov. Ron DeSantis was wrong its authorization to enforce the rule.

The ruling comes arsenic portion of a quarrel betwixt the districts and the authorities that has resulted successful docked schoolhouse committee salaries and the withholding of territory funding.

It besides has brought the ire of the U.S. Department of Education.