{"id":1623435,"date":"2022-08-26T15:34:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T19:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1623435"},"modified":"2022-08-26T15:34:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T19:34:39","slug":"dc-mayor-bans-unvaccinated-children-from-attending-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dc-mayor-bans-unvaccinated-children-from-attending-school\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Mayor Bans Unvaccinated Children From Attending School"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdc-mayor-bans-unvaccinated-children-from-attending-school%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1623435&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/\">Campus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Muriel Bowser offers no alternative options to unvaccinated students<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tWashington, D.C., mayor Muriel Bowser (D.) \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/anna-allen\/\" title=\"Posts by Anna Allen\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Anna Allen<\/a> \u2022 August 26, 2022 3:20 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The District of Columbia will not allow unvaccinated students to attend school and will offer no alternative learning options, Mayor Muriel Bowser (D.)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mayor.dc.gov\/release\/mayor-bowser-and-dcps-remind-families-take-and-submit-covid-19-tests-returning-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Coronavirus Immunization of School Students and Early Childhood Workers Amendment Act of 2021 &#8220;requires students ages 12 and older to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to attend school,&#8221; the mayor&#8217;s press release stated. The act does allow people to file religious or medical exemptions. Once school begins on Monday, students have 20 days to file their immunization certification, &#8220;or\u00a0they will not be allowed to attend school or school activities until the immunization certification is secured by the school,&#8221; the\u00a0Office of the State Superintendent of Education <a href=\"https:\/\/osse.dc.gov\/page\/district-columbia-immunization-attendance-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if there would be alternative options for unvaccinated students, Bowser responded, &#8220;We&#8217;re not offering remote learning for children, and families will need to comply with what is necessary to come to school,&#8221; the<em> Daily Signal\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/08\/25\/dc-mayor-says-no-virtual-learning-giving-unvaccinated-black-teens-zero-alternative-options\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They can go to school on Monday. But they need to get their vaccinations,&#8221; Bowser continued.<\/p>\n<p>According to the district&#8217;s official COVID-19 tracking\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.dc.gov\/data\/vaccination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>, 72 percent of students in the district ages 12 to 15 are fully vaccinated, but only 53 percent of 12-to-15-year-old black students are fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Bowser&#8217;s announcement came on the same day that a D.C. Superior Court judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2022\/08\/25\/dc-coronavirus-vaccine-mandate-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struck down<\/a> the mayor&#8217;s vaccine mandate for all government employees. The D.C. Police Union in February filed a lawsuit against the mayor&#8217;s mandate. Judge Maurice Ross ruled that Bowser does not have the legal authority to issue the order.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Going forward, we will comply with the court&#8217;s orders, as we continue encouraging our community to access life-saving vaccines,&#8221; Bowser <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayorBowser\/status\/1563181314756341760\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in response<\/a> to the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>D.C. is the only state or state-like government in the country to mandate vaccines this year, according to the National Academy for State Health Policy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nashp.org\/states-enact-policies-to-support-students-transition-back-to-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 2022 report<\/a>. California&#8217;s mandate is pending and would not begin until July 2023. Twenty states have banned vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus Muriel Bowser offers no alternative options to unvaccinated students  Washington, D.C., mayor Muriel Bowser (D.) \/ Getty Images  Anna Allen \u2022 August 26, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1623435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}