School chiefs welcome special session
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I.C. Murrell
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Gov. Asa Hutchinson chats with Dumas School District Superintendent Kelvin Gragg before a community discussion on Tuesday at the Dumas Community Center. (Pine Bluff Commercial/I.C. Murrell)
Dumas School District Superintendent Kelvin Gragg made his voice heard and Gov. Asa Hutchinson is taking action.
Two days after hearing from Gragg and other southeast Arkansans about the covid-19 impact close to a new school year, Hutchinson announced Thursday to the entire state that he would call a special session sometime next week no dates were specified to consider amending Act 1002, which prohibits public entities including school districts from enforcing a mask mandate. The act went into effect Wednesday, three months after it was approved in the state legislature.