On Dec. 21, Alaska joined a 23-state lawsuit asking a U.S. District Court in Louisiana to block yet another federal COVID shot mandate that aims to require Head Start workers and volunteers across the country to get the experimental jab or face termination.
Alaska has 17 Head Start and Early Head Start programs, all part of a federally funded preschool program for children from low-income families.
According to a Nov. 30 notice from the Head Start Program, the new rule requires “universal masking for all individuals two years of age and older, with some noted exceptions,” and vaccinations for Head Start staff, contractors and volunteers working in classrooms or directly with children. The deadline for compliance is Jan. 31, 2022.
Our Head Start workers and volunteers have the right to decide for themselves whether to get vaccinated…
The vax mandate would apply to more than 273,000 staff and more than 1 million volunteers serving about 864,000 children nationwide. Contractors who provide direct services to Head Start children or families are also subject to the mandate. Additionally, anyone who enters a Head Start facility, including parents, are required to mask.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy called the Biden administration’s move a “misguided and overreaching” threat to children and families in need.
“This nation should be prioritizing children and families, not putting parents in the untenable situation of choosing between their rights as parents and the education of their kids,” he said. “This new policy will create obstacles for workers and families that need the program the most. We will continue to fight these policies with every resource we can to protect Alaskans from these unconstitutional mandates.”
A communication from the governor’s office said the latest mandate is part of a “series of broad and overreaching Biden Administration actions taken in recent months forcing millions of Americans to choose between submitting to an unwanted vaccine or losing their economic livelihoods.”
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Alaska is currently part of three other federal cases challenging COVID shot requirements for federal contractors, private businesses and healthcare providers.
“The federal government has again forced its way into matters delegated to the states and to the people under the 10th Amendment,” said Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor. “Our Head Start workers and volunteers have the right to decide for themselves whether to get vaccinated, without the fear of losing their jobs or without the fear of the federal government defunding Alaska’s preschool programs.”
The Head Start lawsuit argues that vaccine and masking requirements violate the 10th Amendment and that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has exceeded its lawful authority.
Other states involved in the lawsuit are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.
Texas filed a separate lawsuit on Dec. 10 challenging the Head Start ruling.
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The Constitution doesn’t give the government this kind of authority to tell private businesses how to run, or to require of employees certain health treatments. And this bit about “mandates” that government can only mandate government…the idea of this goes waaaay way back and has more to do with protocol for conducting business….not forcing people to take a certain medical treatment they object to OR to cover their face with a piece of cloth.
There our children we are the parents.
Not the government
Simply it’s time States stand on their own …. Don’t take the money and all mandates STOP!
Communism only exists if we let it!
Alaska needs to be the ” LAST FRONTIER ” ,of which, we were rightfully meant to be !
Myocarditis— heart attacks in children will wake up mothers sadly
the. death of their child will be what it will take in many of the delusional.
“On Dec. 21, Alaska joined a 23-state lawsuit asking a U.S. District Court in Louisiana to block yet another federal COVID shot mandate” Another example of wrong thinking. The federal government has no authority to mandate anything and we don’t need a district court to say it is so. This is an example of people asking their public servants for permission instead of just going straight to the source of the problem and removing the offenders. When Americans start behaving like sovereigns instead of subjects, then maybe there will be cause for hope.
Its up to 30 Dem reps have resigned… The hammer is coming,