Mask mandates are making a comeback in a handful of school districts across the country, even as the school year wraps up and districts shift to summer school.
At least a dozen school districts in some of the most populated cities in the country still mandate masks in schools. In several instances, the districts had removed mask mandates but then elected to reinstate them, citing rising COVID-19 cases in the area.
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The number of school districts requiring masks between May 6 and June 10 ticked up from nine to 13, according to the data company Burbio, which has tracked school reopening policies and mask mandates in the nation’s 500 largest school districts. An additional six districts have partial mandates in place.
The districts still mandating masks are largely concentrated in the northeastern and western parts of the United States. In California, schools in Sacramento and Oakland are mandating masks for students, even as Los Angeles Unified School District and other Southern California districts have abandoned the practice.
In Pennsylvania, students in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia are obligated to wear masks after district administrators there reinstated the requirements in recent months. Along the northeast corridor, students in Boston, Massachusetts, and New Haven, Connecticut, are still required to wear masks.
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Other mask mandates include the Michigan school districts of Detroit and Ann Arbor and Wisconsin’s Madison and Milwaukee districts.
