A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction that blocks enforcement of Iowa's ban on school mask requirements.
Northwood pre-school student Milah Vergeson gets help wearing a mask from her mother Whitney Barker on her way to her class during the first day of school, in Ames, Iowa, on Sept. 7, 2021.A federal judge on Friday granted a preliminary injunction that blocks enforcement of Iowa's ban on school mask requirements.
District Court Judge Robert Pratt called the preliminary injunction an “extreme remedy,” in his 27-page ruling but also cited “the current trajectory of pediatric Covid cases in Iowa since the start of the school year” and “the important public interests at stake.”allowing the state’s 20 school districts to mandate the wearing of masks, which was set to expire on Monday.
Rita Bettis Austen, the legal director at the ACLU of Iowa, applauded the ruling in a statement, saying schools are able to continue requiring masks"in order to meet the needs of kids in their district who have disabilities, including underlying conditions that make them vulnerable to serious illness, hospitalization, or death from Covid.
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