In Florida, the governor has attempted to prevent local school officials from requiring masks for students. Mere days before the beginning of the school year, DeSantis on July 30 issued an executive order giving parents, not school districts, the right to ultimately decide whether their children wear masks in the classroom. The governor’s order says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance, which recommends universal masking inside K-12 schools, “lacks a well-grounded scientific justification.”
