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Culture
Judge halts Biden admin program requiring 2-year-olds to wear masks

(Daily Caller) – A Texas federal judge halted the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) program that required children as young as 2 years old to wear masks. Judge… Read More

April 6, 2023
Culture, Public Education
School district under fire for latest mandatory COVID-19 masking policy

A school district in New Jersey is taking heat after it reinstated mandatory masking for students, district employees and visitors to all district buildings. “Please be advised that… Read More

December 22, 2022
Culture
Fifth Circuit vacates lower court ruling, allowing Abbott’s ban of school district mask mandates to go in effect

(The Center Square) – A Fifth Circuit panel of judges has handed Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton another win, this time upholding the governor’s order prohibiting school… Read More

July 28, 2022
Culture
Ducey appeals ruling against Arizona’s limiting COVID relief to open schools

(The Center Square) – Gov. Doug Ducey is appealing a federal judge’s decision blocking his decision to withhold federal COVID-19 relief to unopened schools. While Arizona had lifted all mask… Read More

July 25, 2022
Culture, Public Education
Some worry a repeat of COVID-mandate ‘chaos’ could start Illinois’ school year

(The Center Square) – Some K-12 school districts start back up for the new school year in as little as a month. Some worry there could be a repeat of… Read More

July 20, 2022
Culture, Public Education
Vaccine mandates remain for K-12 staff, not higher ed staff and students, as Pritzker looks to ‘resume normal operations’

(The Center Square) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker has modified his COVID-19 executive orders “to ensure governments are resuming normal operations.” The move relaxes the vaccine or testing mandates in some… Read More

July 14, 2022
Public Education
Study: Masks get failing grade in keeping kids in school

A study of the nation’s 500 largest school districts indicates that masking children in school had the opposite effect that proponents hoped — children in masked districts experienced, on average, 4-times… Read More

April 4, 2022
Public Education
Despite new guidance, Biden admin still requiring toddlers in Head Start to remain masked

End the federal mask mandate for the Head Start program. That’s the message congressional Republicans are sending to the Biden administration. New York Rep. Elise Stefanik… Read More

March 16, 2022
Public Education
Better late than never? Schools back to normal, Pritzker orders

(The Center Square) – Illinois schools can return to “normal operating procedures when dealing with infectious disease,” according to an executive order Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued Friday. “Now… Read More

March 7, 2022
Public Education
Georgia Senate approves bill allowing parents to opt out of school mask mandates

(The Center Square) — The Georgia Senate has approved a bill that would allow parents to opt their children out of face-covering requirements at Georgia schools. Local school… Read More

March 3, 2022
Public Education
Some question if “political science” was part of relaxing COVID-19 mandates in Illinois

(The Center Square) — While some say the science of COVID-19 has led to Illinois lifting its mask mandate in most places, including schools and daycare settings, others say the… Read More

March 2, 2022
Public Education
New York schools set to finally lift mask mandate Wednesday

(The Center Square) — New York expects to drop its mask mandate for schools on Wednesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul told reporters Sunday afternoon. The governor said that individual counties and… Read More

February 28, 2022
Public Education
Eastern Washington schools risk state funding loss by ending student mask mandate

(The Center Square) – The Colville and Kettle Falls school districts in Stevens County have removed student masks more than a month before the state lifts the mandate. The Colville… Read More

February 21, 2022
Public Education
School association doesn’t expect ISBE to enforce mask mandate ‘at this point’

(The Center Square) – An association representing large school districts across Illinois expects the issue of mask mandates to eventually dissipate, despite the attorney general appealing to the Illinois Supreme… Read More

February 21, 2022
Public Education
Court: Virginia county can’t enforce mask rules, must expunge punishments

(The Center Square) – A court ordered that Loudoun County, Virginia Public Schools cannot enforce its mask mandate on students and will need to expunge students’ records if they had… Read More

February 18, 2022
Public Education
Cooper shifts school mask guidance as lawmakers pass bill allowing parents to opt out

(The Center Square) – As the North Carolina General Assembly voted Thursday to allow parents to opt out of student mask mandates for their children, Gov. Roy Cooper and state… Read More

February 18, 2022
Public Education
Illinois ed board removes meeting agenda item for vaccine mandate rule

(The Center Square) – Don’t expect the Illinois State Board of Education to take up a proposed rule requiring the COVID-19 vaccine or testing for school staff. The item was… Read More

February 17, 2022
Public Education
Youngkin signs bill to ban mask mandates in Virginia schools

(The Center Square) – Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed legislation Wednesday afternoon that allows parents to opt their children out of public school mask requirements, effectively banning mandates on public… Read More

February 17, 2022
Public Education
Bipartisan legislative committee blocks Pritzker’s emergency mask rule for schools

(The Center Square) – The governor’s latest school mask mandate rule was blocked by the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR). The bipartisan committee of Democratic and Republican lawmakers from… Read More

February 16, 2022
Public Education
Two school districts face contempt motion over claims they are violating mask restraining order

(The Center Square) – All of last week, children of plaintiffs in the school mask and exclusion lawsuit weren’t being punished for not wearing a mask. That changed… Read More

February 16, 2022