TAMPA, Fla. — During an emergency meeting of the Hillsborough County School Board, members voted 5-2 to rescind an earlier order to go virtual for a month, and will continue with the current plan to open campuses on Monday.
The majority of parents in Hillsborough County elected to send their children back to brick-and-mortar schools.
The school board had to procedurally vote on the plan for students to return to campus Monday because a Tallahassee judge's decision and lift of stay made things legally revert back to the August 6 decision to keep schools online for a month.
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On Thursday, a judge in Tallahassee invalidated the state's attempt to withhold funding from schools that do not open classrooms by the end of the month.
The funding cut threat was the reason why the Hillsborough County Public Schools decided to re-open schools on August 31, as opposed to its original plan to start the school year with four weeks of eLearning.
With the threat of $23 million in funding cuts per month gone, the school board could decide on Friday to revert back to its original eLearning plan, just two days before classrooms are set to re-open.
Parents have mixed reactions to the emergency board meeting.
On a Facebook post on the school district website, Amie Brady writes, "This is absolutely absurd. To go back and forth with teachers, parents and most importantly the students. Stop taking our choice away!!! We have teachers who want to teach in person, and families who need their children to be in school."
Sarah Sanford posted, "I understand people are frustrated with e-learning, but that frustration is not worth the lives of our students and staff... it is not safe yet."
The school board has not stated what it will be discussing in Friday’s emergency meeting, or if it will take a vote on a new plan to re-open schools that delays students and teachers from returning to brick-and-mortars.
However, early in August and before the threat of funding cuts, only two board members voted for classrooms to re-open, with the rest of the board voting for eLearning until at least Labor Day.
In a statement after the ruling on Thursday, State Board of Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran said the state will immediately appeal the decision.
"This decision only creates greater confusion for the approximately 1 million students who have started in-person learning throughout 56 brick and mortar school districts, the nearly 100 percent of teachers who have joyfully come back to teach their students, and all the parents who made the choice of what was best for their child," Corcoran said.
The emergency hearing of the Hillsborough County Public Schools will begin at 8 a.m.
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