{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://stanton.house.gov/2021/10/stanton-ducey-wrong-to-steal-money-allocated-to-tempe-chandler-schools", "Stanton: Ducey Wrong to Steal Money Allocated to Tempe, Chandler Schools", "2021-10-14", "2021", "2021-10", "Democrat", "House", "AZ", "Greg Stanton", "S001211", "stanton.house.gov", "stanton", "https://stanton.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "Today, Rep. Greg Stanton said Gov. Doug Ducey is wrong to steal money allocated to Tempe and Chandler schools because those schools refuse to go along with Ducey\u2019s plan to subsidize the spread of COVID-19 among Arizona students.\n\nDucey declared that he would rescind federal COVID relief grant money to school districts with mask mandates in place. The state has a legal obligation to make those funds available to all Arizona children, Stanton said, and by refusing to do so risks Arizona losing important federal funds.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s really outrageous that Governor Ducey is so committed to denying science that he\u2019s willing to literally steal money from kids in Tempe and Chandler,\u201d said Stanton. \u201cI wish I could say it\u2019s a surprise, but it\u2019s consistent with his continued mismanagement of the pandemic.\u201d\n\nStanton continued: \u201cThe state should be giving schools every possible resource to get children back in the classroom safely, not punishing them for following the science.\u201d\n\nDucey\u2019s office allocated grant money to some school districts with mask mandates in place, including Kyrene Elementary and Tempe Union. But now Ducey says he\u2019s demanding the money back.\n\nIn August, Stanton asked Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to respond to Ducey\u2019s grant program designed to deny federal COVID-19 relief funds to schools that follow CDC guidance and mandate masks. His letter is available HERE.\n\nLast week, the Treasury Department warned Ducey that the two grant programs, which undermine evidence-based efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19 in schools, are not permissible uses of American Rescue Plan funds. The letter is available HERE.\n\nA recent study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Arizona State University found that Arizona public schools without a mask mandate are 3.5 times more likely to experience an outbreak of COVID-19.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:24:51Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://stanton.house.gov/2021/10/stanton-ducey-wrong-to-steal-money-allocated-to-tempe-chandler-schools"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7929010316729546, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}