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COVID-19 mask mandates latest flashpoint for US schools
A principal greets students as they return to New York City s public schools for in-person learning, as the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, at P.S. 506 in Brooklyn, New York, on Dec 7, 2020. (Photo: REUTERS/Brendan McDermid)
26 May 2021 03:53AM (Updated:
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WASHINGTON: Two days after the school board in Johnston, Iowa, decided last week to keep requiring mask wearing in schools to prevent coronavirus transmission, the state s Republican governor signed a law that immediately prohibited such mandates.
I believe all means all. So when there are students that are here that need to be educated, we have an obligation. Whether or not that means they have different rights, I ll leave that to others.
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President Joe Biden might have hit his 100-day goal of reopening the majority of K-8 schools for in-person learning, but there are still a lot of unmet challenges facing the new administration.
They include reopening high schools, smoothing out tensions with the teachers unions, as well as repairing racial and economic disparities that revealed themselves during the coronavirus shutdowns.
To be sure, the pandemic has changed education in the United States forever. It cast a critical light on school financing, the ability of students, teachers, and parents to adapt to a new scholastic landscape, and gave teachers more power than they d had in a generation.
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