The Biden administration’s Department of Education has opened investigations into a handful of states to determine whether they are violating the civil rights of students with disabilities with their school masking policies.
The investigations, headed up by the department’s civil rights office, will look at indoor mask-mandate prohibitions, and whether or not these prohibitions prevent students with a “heightened” risk of severe COVID-19 from attending their schools in person. Five states are under investigation: Oklahoma, Tennessee, Iowa, South Carolina, and Utah.
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