A year after students and staff in Pennsylvania schools were required to wear masks to protect against COVID-19, the lack of a statewide order has resulted in a patchwork of mask-related policies across the state’s 500 districts.
School boards have found themselves caught in a political battle as much as a health one as they attempt to implement mitigation policies during an ongoing coronavirus pandemic that features a new and highly transmissible delta variant.
In July 2020, before vaccines came widely available, then-Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine signed a public health order that included mandatory mask- wearing in schools.
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