But President Biden does not think that is enough and is making stronger rules and offering incentives for enforcing them.
“Building on Administration policies to require vaccination among federal employees, including those serving children in DOD and BIE schools, the President is asking more states to join in requiring the vaccine for school employees to make sure we are keeping students safe,” the statement read. “Now, President Biden promises to fill in any gaps in funding that result. This goes above and beyond the $122 billion set aside for school reopenings in the American Rescue Plan., ‘Local school districts will be able to apply to the Department of Education in the coming weeks to restore funding withheld by state leaders … when a school district implemented strategies to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 in schools,’” a statement read.But it isn’t all great news.
“We’ve been really careful with our mitigation strategies and layered approach, so we’re very confident in who is potentially exposed and who isn’t,” said Brenda Martinek, the district’s chief of student support services told theMasking, vaccines, and unfortunately quarantines, are the way of our world right now.