and right now, students can stop wearing masks in hillsboro schools in florida after the district determined students don t need a medical exemption to opt out. parents are now allowed to fill out a form if they don t want their kids wearing a mask in school. nbc s tiffany stanton is in tampa where that school district is located. so, stephanie, welcome back. how are the surrounding school districts responding to this push to lift the mask mandates? reporter: well, alex, that depends on what school district we re talking about. but let me sort of set the scene for you and paint the picture because earlier this week, on thursday, the state school board of education met and they actually sanctioned eight school districts here in the state of florida, including miami dade and orange county, which is in the orlando area, for failing to comply with the governor s anti-mask mandate. they were given, those school districts, they were given 48 hours to comply or be fined the equivalency of