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Report shows how school closures impacted students’ performance
A recent report shows how students were impacted academically by prolonged school closures and remote classrooms in relation to the Covid 19, with worse grades in math and language arts. A new report from Renaissance Learning makes a data comparison between the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 academic years of the performance and ...
White House drops mask mandate before Biden’s State of the Union address
Joe Biden's administration stopped requiring fully vaccinated Americans to cover their nose and mouth inside the U.S. Capitol Complex. A mask mandate ended in time for the president's annual message to Congress. The White House confirmed masks would no longer be required just hours before the 2022 State of the Union address ...
Will life in California go back to the way it was before the pandemic: Unlikely if Gov. Newsom has his way
Life in California is just not the same since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Although the disease is entering an endemic phase, new rules and standards imposed will remain in the lives of its citizens, whether or not they agree. As California shifts the focus of COVID from a pandemic to an ...
Florida House and Senate at odds over budget for schools that imposed face masks
Late Thursday, Feb. 17, the Florida Senate passed a nearly $109 billion budget without debate, while the House, the day before, passed one that calls for stripping $200 million from schools that imposed the facemask mandate in 2021. The budget differences are expected to be resolved by March 8. The Florida ...
Stacey Abrams goes maskless in a classroom of masked children
A Democrat who wants to be Georgia's next governor briefly did not cover her nose and mouth on Feb. 4. Stacey Abrams was caught not wearing a face mask during a visit to Glennwood Elementary School in Decatur, about 7 miles northeast of downtown Atlanta. A photo, which has since gone viral ...
Over 8,000 COVID-19 cases hospitalized, California extends mask mandate till mid-Feb
California's health official has decided to maintain the indoor mask mandate till Feb. 15 as the state is witnessing a surge in COVID-19 patients, partly due to the Omicron variant. California Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly announced the extension on Wednesday, Jan. 5. Fox News reported that he also urged people to ...
San Francisco: Mayor caught violating her own facemask mandate at a nightclub
Democratic San Francisco Mayor London Breed was caught with Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder Alicia Garza at a nightclub event where all participants, including the two, spent the night maskless, denying the mayor's own mandate. Breed, who has already come under heavy criticism due to restrictive rules she imposed to deal ...
A federal judge in Florida has refused to overturn the state’s mask mandate
A federal judge on Wednesday, Sept, 15 refused to overturn a ban established by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to prevent Florida students from wearing masks unless by choice during the COVID-19 pandemic. As TheBL previously reported, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) on Friday, July 30, signed an executive order that forbade ...
Thousands protest vaccine passports, mandates in Turkey
More than two thousand people opposed new COVID-19 protocols on Sept. 11. The dramatic protest came after the Turkish government demanded all residents to either show proof of full vaccination, or a recent negative COVID-19 test result, before using public transport and attending major events. Masks and social distancing are mandatory in ...
Appeals court sides with DeSantis, reinstates mask mandate ban
The appeals court on Friday, Sept. 6, granted Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R) a temporary legal win on his mask mandate ban, bringing the policies back in place, at least for now. The order issued in late July did not oppose mask-wearing and demanded schools to let parents decide or risk ...
Biden will unveil new plan to fight pandemic’s Delta variant surge
Joe Biden's administration is widely expected to launch a new strategy to combat the deadly disease's Delta variant on Sept. 7. It will urge more Americans to be immunized. "On Thursday, the president will speak to the American people about his robust plan to stop the spread of the Delta variant ...
Troopers, firefighters sue Democrat Oregon Gov. Kate Brown for vaccine mandate
A coalition of Oregon troopers and firefighters are suing Gov. Kate Brown (D) for forcing them to be fully vaccinated against the Chinese Communist Party virus (COVID-19). The lawsuit is asking Jefferson County Circuit Court to declare the governor's August executive order, which mandates COVID-19 immunization, is "unenforceable." The Oregon Fraternal Order of ...
New York Health Department repeals mask mandate for unvaxxed people following federal lawsuit
The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) has repealed the mask mandate for unvaccinated people three weeks after a federal lawsuit challenging the regulation's constitutionality was filed. The department’s commissioner Howard Zucker last Friday, Aug. 27, revoked a regulation, namely NYCRR 66-3, which required the non-vaxxed people to wear masks while ...
Texas Supreme Court agrees with GOP Gov. Greg Abbott on no mask mandate
The Texas Supreme Court removed a temporary restraining order on a Republican governor's directive that masks should be worn voluntarily on Aug. 15. This decision temporarily prevents the lower court in Bexar and Court of Appeals in Dallas County from implementing a mask mandate they introduced two days earlier, according to ...
Incoming NY governor supports school mask mandate for children
Kathy Hochul gave her blessing for schools to force children to cover their noses and mouths across New York, on Aug. 15. The incoming state governor described mandatory face masks in classrooms as a vital step to help cope with a new wave of COVID-19 infections. "Masks for kids in schools, ...
Protests erupt in US against forced vaccinations and mandatory masks in schools
This week, protests erupted in several U.S. states against left-leaning agendas that have been implemented in school districts, such as mandatory facemasks, gender ideology, and critical race theory, Fox News reported. Parents of students are becoming increasingly critical of this agenda, as they fear these policies could harm their children. Earlier this ...
South Carolina joins Florida in letting parents decide if children wear face masks
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) believes no educator should force children to cover their nose and mouth on Aug. 9. McMaster described mask mandates for children as the wrong approach to fighting COVID-19, even though the Delta strain is more infectious. "The new variant, the Delta there, it does pose a ...
GOP Gov. DeSantis will withhold pay for Florida officials who impose mask mandates on students
As elementary and high school students return to face-to-face learning, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) vowed to financially penalize education leaders who force students to cover their nose and mouth on Aug. 9. The governor's office confirmed the State Board of Education will treat any school official who imposes a face ...
Florida Gov. DeSantis’s Democrat challenger will let local government impose own mask mandates
A Democrat that wants to be the next governor of Florida wants to give local authorities and school boards the authority to impose their own mask mandates. Nikki Fried, who is running against incumbent Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), believes the measure would help contain the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus. However, ...
McDonald’s reinstates mask mandate for all customers, staff
On Monday, Aug. 2, McDonald's Corp said that all customers and employees, whether vaccinated or not, will be required to wear masks inside its U.S. restaurants in areas with high or considerable transmission. As USA Today reports, with 14,000 locations across the United States, McDonald's is the largest national corporation to ...
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