Florida school board to require masks in fall, defying DeSantis’s stance

Published July 29, 2021 3:46pm ET



A Florida school board voted Wednesday to require all students and faculty to wear masks inside schools for the fall semester, a policy at odds with Gov. Ron DeSantis‘s stance against making face covers compulsory.

Broward County Public Schools decided to require masks during the fall semester following updated Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance recommending that fully vaccinated people wear masks inside in regions where the virus is proliferating.

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