Advocates seeking to remove school vaccine requirements are focusing on Louisiana, Texas and Idaho after recent policy changes in Florida. Their proposals face political debate and uncertainty within GOP-led states.
Florida officials frame the move as a matter of medical freedom and personal choice. Public health experts caution it could increase outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases
Oklahoma will require applicants for teaching jobs from California and New York to pass an exam that the state’s top education official said is designed to safeguard against “radical leftist ideology.” Opponents decry the exam as a “MAGA loyalty test.
The new law brings sweeping changes, including national school vouchers, revised Medicaid and food assistance policies, and major overhauls to federal student loans and college funding.
“The decision to withhold this funding is contrary to President Trump’s goal of returning K12 education to the states,” the GOP senators wrote in a letter to Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought obtained by ABC News.
