Education Secretary Ready To Use Civil Rights Arm To Probe School Bans On Mask Mandates
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Miguel Cardona said the Education Department is prepared to investigate "any claims that come forward to make sure that students’ rights are kept."
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said Sunday that his department is prepared to use its civil rights division to investigate school bans on face mask mandates ― the Biden administration’s latest effort to combat anti-mask policies that have enabled the spread of COVID-19’s highly transmissible delta variant. Speaking to Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Cardona went into detail about his conversation with President Joe Biden regarding the idea of using the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights as a way to probe schools that are putting students’ health at risk by banning mask requirements. Todd cited some local districts in Illinois where officials want to defy Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s statewide mask mandate for schools, to which Cardona replied: “We know what works best.”More Related News