York Dispatch
Nine parents testified at the West Shore School District and Eastern York School District s board meetings Thursday night about concerns they had with each district s health and safety plan for the 2021-22 school year.
Both boards passed their plans with a unanimous vote, despite the parents concerns. A larger group of parents, including several who testified on Thursday, also testified at the June 17 board meeting against a potential mask mandate, which is not included in either plan.
At least 43 people testified against mask mandates at six local school board meetings last month, including at West Shore, despite none of the districts proposing a mandate. School districts must submit their health and safety plans for the 2021-22 school year by July 30 to be eligible for COVID-19 relief funding, and many of the parents were concerned that the plans would include mask mandates.
made his decision, but then once he made that decision, it wasn t his role necessarily to question it but to implement it. but others would suggest that sort of military thinking maybe didn t serve john kelly or the president in a way that it could have because it s this idea of sort of following the chain of command, and you know many suggest that perhaps john kelly should have stood up if there were disagreements that he had with the president on these controversial issues from the family separation to the travel ban when he was homeland security secretary and so on. you write what he said, military duty personnel don t walk away. fascinating read. thank you for that. thanks. to new action on the government shutdown, i want to bring in laura basso, political reporter for the washington post and also alex, political reporter for nbc news. let s talk about the political shutdown and to what kellyanne conway said this morning as what
kellyanne conway is right. it was shocking walking around the white house how little was open, how many offices were closed. you would think they would be burning the midnight oil trying to make negotiations. this really was not happening. that s because the government has a good reason to hold out, and that s january 3rd when nancy pelosi and the democrats will take over the house. they have a much stronger position to negotiate a hand and they can pass something. they plan to pass something that day, so they re waiting for that. they also said they re not even going to consider or offer from the republicans or the white house until president trump publicly endorses it, and that s because he s backtracked on so many of these offers in the past, they say it wouldn t even be worth taking it up. they just want to hear it from his mouth directly. laura, we were talking about it being politics, principle.
of a victory, while democrats sass could say they didn t give $5.6 billion for the wall. what do you think about all this, laura? i don t think trump will get the wall that he thinks he wants. but he has a way of spending things, so i think democrats will get what they want and trump can spin it into a big win. regardless of what happens, my point is i think trump will claim a victory. so much has got to happen before we even get to that point. alex, laura bassett, thank you. who has the better optics in this shutdown? can the democrats walk and chew gum at the same time, or will they get bogged down in investigations when they take over congress in a few days? steve cohen joins me next. ins me in the palm of his hand