Greg Abbott vowed on Wednesday to take any school or local government that defies his executive order barring mask mandates "to court" after he challenged a Dallas mask order. DALLAS SCHOOLS ISSUE MASK MANDATE, DEFYING GOV. The Houston Independent School District – Texas’ largest district with over 200,000 students – said it will create a mask mandate pending board approval Thursday. Abbott lifted Texas’ mask mandate in March after cases started to drop during the vaccine rollout. By May he had issued an executive order barring local officials from establishing future mask requirements.

Source: Fox News August 12, 2021 01:07 UTC