people safe. reporter: near los angeles, culver city will now require all students 12 and older to get vaccinated by mid november. teachers and staff must also get the shots. but battles over masks requirements in schools continue. with kids stuck in the middle. the masks are like uncomfortable, but it is for safety. if i wear my mask, that means that i get to see my friends, i ll just wear a mask. reporter: in florida, some 4600 students and 1500 employees across the 15 largest school districts have tested positive for covid. and another 19,000 students and staff have been quarantined or isolated. defying governor ron desantis, school boards voted to mandate masks in three additional counties. miami-dade and palm beach and in hillsborough where quarantining students is becoming a new focus of outrage. some parents are arguing it should be up to them whether they keep their child home from school after covid exposure. the governor deggoes.
i think quarantining deprives them of an ability to get an education. now maybe a parent would want a healthy kid to be quarantined if there is an exposure, but that should be the choice of the parent. reporter: an approach that flies in the face of public health guidance. we have a horl ob moral oblio keep children staff. reporter: and in oregon, all teachers, staff and volunteers have to be fully vaccinated. governor kate brown saying that children need to be in the classroom five days a week and in order to do that, masks need to be worn and adults around th children need to be vaccinated. athena jones, cnn, new york. here in georgia, hundreds of doctors are asking for mask mandates in schools where many children aren t eligible for the vaccine. the state s larsecond largest
school system met and ryan young was at the meeting. reporter: a lot of passion behind this debate here, whether or not kids would wear a mask in school. cal be coubb county is one of te largest and you had passions on display as hundreds of parents showed up to let their voices be heard. and you can see some parents wearing masks, others not. and that is how they think the school system should be. parents said over and over they are concerned about their kids going to school with kids who don t have masks on. let s not forget they already had to remove several students from school just last week over 500 covid positive cases have been counted in the last week and a half in the cobb county schools. take a listen to parents from both sides. i m not worried and i m not surprised. this is the south where the worst vaccinated area in the
whole of the usa. but i feel like i ve got to stand up for my children who cannot be vaccinated. they are 10 years old. my husband was in the hospital with covid. i get covid is real. vaccines don t work, these don t work and we need to listen to people. it is my body, my choice. i have choices. i live in a free country. reporter: passion from parents continues. not all the parents could even fit inside during the board meeting. the cobb county board of education didn t take up this subject, they did not change anything yet when it comes to the mask mandate. some parents say they have to see change and they want to see something happen to protect those kids. back to you. and cnn has learned the cobb county school district decided to keep its mask optional policy but saying in a statement after the meeting that masks are strongly encouraged. new zealand and parts of australia are tightening covid restrictions as the delta variant fuels a rise in cases around the world.
before. so as a result, we see particular con send straegss in te texas, california, maryland and virginia and pennsylvania. reporter: but there is now pushback from some conservative political figures on the plan to bring afghan evacuees to america. stephen miller former top adviser to president trump went on fox news to say that resettling afghans is little more than a costly political move. those who are advocating masks, afghan resettlement in this country are doing so for political and not humanitarian reasons. it is extraordinarily expensive to resettle a refugee in the united states. they get free health care, they get free education, they get free housing, get free food. reporter: plus miller suggested without evidence that afghans who have been granted those visas could pose security threats. we know longer are in control of the central apparatus in afghanistan to be able to vet