The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has launched investigations in five states that prohibit universal mask mandates in schools.
The investigations will explore whether statewide rules against indoor masking in Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah discriminate against students with disabilities who face higher risks for severe COVID-19.
“The Department has heard from parents from across the country -- particularly parents of students with disabilities and with underlying medical conditions -- about how state bans on universal indoor masking are putting their children at risk and preventing them from accessing in-person learning equally,” Miguel Cardona, the U.S.
The department sent letters to the chief school officers in the five states, outlining how mask mandate bans could prevent school districts from using health and safety policies that are deemed necessary at the local level. The letters state that mask restrictions “may be preventing schools from meeting their legal obligations not to discriminate based on disability and from providing an equal educational opportunity to students with disabilities.
Education officials in Oklahoma and South Carolina said they would cooperate with the investigation and signaled that they were against their states’ bans on mask mandates, according
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