Despite rising rates of COVID-19 throughout the United States, some Republican governors, including ours, are threatening to withhold COVID relief funding to school districts that have enacted mask mandates. It makes no sense for any governor to defy what is in the best interest of public health. Children under the age of 12 are not eligible to receive COVID vaccinations yet and are at risk of contracting the highly contagious delta variant. School districts should be free to make decisions in the best interest of students and staff as well -- which includes mask wearing mandates. Ducey‘s overreach in forbidding mask mandates in the state’s school districts is political grandstanding.

Source: Daily Sun September 05, 2021 17:37 UTC