{"id":701146,"date":"2021-08-30T21:06:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T01:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=701146"},"modified":"2021-08-30T21:06:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T01:06:08","slug":"biden-admin-investigating-school-mask-mandate-bans-as-possible-civil-rights-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-investigating-school-mask-mandate-bans-as-possible-civil-rights-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Investigating School Mask Mandate Bans As Possible Civil Rights Violations"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fbiden-admin-investigating-school-mask-mandate-bans-as-possible-civil-rights-violations%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=701146&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Masks-Schools.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The Biden administration\u2019s Department of Education has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/news\/press-releases\/department-educations-office-civil-rights-opens-investigations-five-states-regarding-prohibitions-universal-indoor-masking\">opened<\/a> investigations into a handful of states to determine whether they are violating the civil rights of students with disabilities with their school masking policies.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The investigations, headed up by the department\u2019s civil rights office, will look at indoor mask-mandate prohibitions, and whether or not these prohibitions prevent students with a \u201cheightened\u201d risk of severe COVID-19 from attending their schools in person. Five states are under investigation: Oklahoma, Tennessee, Iowa, South Carolina, and Utah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s simply unacceptable that state leaders are putting politics over the health and education of the students they took an oath to serve,\u201d said Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona in a statement. \u201c<\/span><span>The Department will fight to protect every student\u2019s right to access in-person learning safely and the rights of local educators to put in place policies that allow all students to return to the classroom full-time in-person safely this fall.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Throughout the country, a number of state governments have taken steps toward curbing mask mandates. But President Joe Biden has vowed to do what he can to ensure local school districts have the authority to pursue such measures.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cUnfortunately, as you\u2019ve seen throughout this pandemic, some politicians are trying to turn public safety measures \u2014 that is, children wearing masks in school \u2014 into political disputes for their own political gain,\u201d Biden said in remarks earlier this month, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/18\/us\/politics\/biden-masks-schools-civil-rights.html\"><span>according<\/span><\/a><span> to The New York Times. \u201cWe are not going to sit by as governors try to block and intimidate educators protecting our children.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now, the Biden administration has formally warned state officials that, by pursuing anti-mask mandate policies, they may be causing school districts to discriminate on the basis of disability. They may also be failing to provide \u201can equal educational opportunity to students with disabilities who are at heightened risk of severe illness from COVID-19.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds (R-IA), in a statement Monday, accused Biden of picking a fight to distract from his other policies.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIowa was able to reopen schools safely and responsibly over a year ago. President Biden and his team know this, yet they\u2019ve decided to pick a political fight with a handful of governors to distract from his own failures \u2013 Afghanistan, the border, inflation, and more,\u201d said Reynolds.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAs I\u2019ve said all along, I believe and trust in Iowans to make the best health decisions for themselves and their families. Iowa\u2019s democratically elected legislature endorsed that view as well when they passed a law to support a parent\u2019s right to decide what\u2019s best for their own children. In Iowa, we will continue to support individual liberty over government mandates,\u201d she said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Department of Education\u2019s office of civil rights, according to the agency, will serve as a \u201cneutral fact-finder\u201d before it determines whether or not it believes the law has been violated. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The office has also said it will monitor several states, including Florida, for potential investigations. However, the administration has not opened investigations into those states because state actions and court rulings have temporarily blocked them.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration\u2019s Department of Education has opened investigations into a handful of states to determine whether they are violating the civil rights of students with disabilities with their school &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701146","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\/701146","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701146\/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=701146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}