Five-year-old Madelyn Mirzaian is comforted by her mother, Dr. Christine Mirzaian, after receiving the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles on November 3, 2021.Credit: Al Seib: Los Angeles Times / Getty 

Amid fears of what U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term will mean for global health and public education, the Republican on Friday signed an executive order to defund schools that require Covid-19 vaccination for students.

Trump’s order bars federal funding “from being used to support or subsidize an educational service agency, state education agency, local education agency, elementary school, secondary school, or institution of higher education that requires students to have received a Covid-19 vaccination to attend in-person education programs,” according to a White House fact sheet.

The order, first reported by Breitbart News, also directs the secretaries of education and health and human services (HHS) to develop a plan “to end coercive Covid-19 vaccine mandates, including a report on noncompliant entities and a process for preventing federal funds from supporting educational entities that impose […]

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