Thread by @BillyCorben

Miami private for-profit school Centner Academy — owned by GOP mega-donors who charge up to $30,000 in tuition — bars vaccinated teachers from contact with students, citing anti-vax conspiracy theories #BecauseMiami nytimes.com/2021/04/26/us/…

School founder and CEO Leila Centner's Instagram is packed with debunked COVID anti-mask and anti-vax conspiracy theories and right-wing propaganda, many posts flagged for misinformation #BecauseMiami instagram.com/leilacentner/

Two years ago, the Centners opened the academy illegally over the protests of residents — then they paid off Commissioner @KeonHardemon and Mayor @FrancisSuarez #BecauseMiami

They opened Centner Academy illegally in August 2019 without a Certificate of Occupancy, so they hired @MiamiMayor Francis Suarez's law firm to lobby the city #BecauseMiami: crespogramnews.com/august-27th---…

Miami residents appealed the city's zoning exception for Centner Academy, then the owners made ten $1,000 "donations" from their various entities to Commissioner @KeonHardemon and, two weeks later, he personally intervened on their behalf #BecauseMiami: crespogramnews.com/sept-11th---ho…

The email Leila Centner sent last week tells school staff "reports have surfaced recently of non-vaccinated people being negatively impacted by interacting with people who have been vaccinated" and "reports of menstrual cycles being impacted and a 366% increases in miscarriages"

In 2020 alone, the Centners donated over $1 million to the Republican Party (national and state) and candidates in federal elections including Donald Trump and Rick Scott.

Centner also spread COVID misinformation in a letter to parents saying they will not employ vaccinated people: "it appears that those who have received the injections may be transmitting something from their bodies to those with whom they come in contact" #BecauseMiami