iStockphoto Gov. Spencer Cox announced last week that public K-12 schools will not be required to have a mask mandate during their final week of school. Whether people are in support of mask mandates or not, one thing many of them can now agree on is that the decision to end the school mask mandate early was a bad one. Gov. Spencer Cox announced last week that public K-12 schools will not be required to have a mask requirement during their final week of school. He said the decision was a compromise between people who wanted the mandate removed immediately and those in favor of keeping it. It was also made because COVID-19 cases in schools have been declining, he said.