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The Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocked San Antonio’s mask mandate for public schools Thursday — the latest in the tug-of-war legal battle between local governments and the state’s Republican leadership over mandatory face coverings.
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A growing number of parents in the Alamo Heights Independent School District who work in the medical field are calling on their school board to implement a mask mandate.
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Disability Rights Texas sued on behalf of 14 Texas schoolchildren, arguing the governor's executive order forces schools to violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Trustees of the Northside Independent School District voted unanimously for a “temporary indoor mask mandate” Tuesday night, after hearing from dozens of people on both sides of the issue.
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Gov. Greg Abbott — who announced Tuesday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus despite being fully vaccinated — has been fighting with local governments over masks for months.
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Most of San Antonio’s independent school districts returned to mask policies that comply with the governor’s state ban on mandates Monday. For many districts, the policy change came hours before the first day of the school year.
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In a late-night Tweet, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he plans to take the mask mandate battle to the Texas Supreme Court.
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The superintendent of San Antonio’s second largest school district says the district’s year round school, Castle Hills Elementary, has seen unprecedented student to student spread of the coronavirus in recent weeks.
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Northside officials told TPR they didn’t want to confuse parents and staff by implementing a mandate that may no longer be in place on Aug. 23, the district’s first day of school. But the lack of clear communication appears to have had the opposite effect.
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