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07-19-2022, 04:08 AM
To ensure students’ safe return to in-person learning amid a surge in the Delta variant of the coronavirus, some school districts plan to institute mask mandates.
Yet that move isn’t necessarily straightforward — several of the country’s hardest-hit states have banned such mandates.
We look at how this conflict is playing out in Arkansas.
Guest: Richard Fausset (https://www.nytimes.com/by/richard-fausset?smid=pc-thedaily), a correspondent covering the American South for The New York Times.
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Background reading:
Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas signed a law banning mask mandates early this year. Now, he wants to unravel it, reflecting a dilemma for Republican governors across the South, where the health crisis has deepened (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/03/us/covid-arkansas-mask-mandate.html?smid=pc-thedaily).
School officials in Florida and Arizona say they intend to require students and teachers to wear masks in school (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/us/schools-mask-mandates-Arizona-Florida.html?smid=pc-thedaily), despite statewide bans on such policies.
For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily (http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily). Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.
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Yet that move isn’t necessarily straightforward — several of the country’s hardest-hit states have banned such mandates.
We look at how this conflict is playing out in Arkansas.
Guest: Richard Fausset (https://www.nytimes.com/by/richard-fausset?smid=pc-thedaily), a correspondent covering the American South for The New York Times.
Sign up here (https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/signup/NTTD?smid=pc-thedaily) to get The Daily in your inbox each morning. And for an exclusive look at how the biggest stories on our show come together, subscribe to our newsletter (https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/the-daily?module=inline).
Background reading:
Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas signed a law banning mask mandates early this year. Now, he wants to unravel it, reflecting a dilemma for Republican governors across the South, where the health crisis has deepened (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/03/us/covid-arkansas-mask-mandate.html?smid=pc-thedaily).
School officials in Florida and Arizona say they intend to require students and teachers to wear masks in school (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/us/schools-mask-mandates-Arizona-Florida.html?smid=pc-thedaily), despite statewide bans on such policies.
For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily (http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily). Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.
أكثر... (https://www.nytimes.com/the-daily)