As some statewide COVID-19 mask mandates in the United States are coming to an end, responsibility is shifting back to local leaders, who are caught in the middle of what have become divisive, political issues of the pandemic.
Some school officials around the country had welcomed the state-imposed mandates to spare them from having to make unpopular decisions, especially early in the pandemic. But many superintendents have said they now have the tools to decide whether masks should be required, and they welcomed the ability to adapt as needed.
“Unfortunately, this is an issue where you are not going to make everybody happy,” Jeffrey Solan, school superintendent in Cheshire, Connecticut. “We can’t allow those individual passions to decide the debate.”
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