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Ron DeSantis: “When Covid was going on, I required that all schools remain…”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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Gov. DeSantis delivers remarks at Florida Freedom Forum in Orlando

Published | Video Starts at 14:48

We've also beat the left on education and some of that means defeating the teachers unions who've been a huge problem. And they're very partisan and they have an agenda. And When Covid was going on, I required that all schools remain open and they sued me to try to close the schools. They wanted kids out of school for a year. And that would have happened had we not stood up to them. (14:48–14:57)

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Asserts that Ron DeSantis required schools to remain open during COVID-19 and was sued for it.

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