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Gov. Spencer Cox announced last week that public K-12 schools will not be required to have a mask mandate during their final week of school.
Whether people are in support of mask mandates or not, one thing many of them can now agree on is that
the decision to end the school mask mandate early was a bad one.
Gov. Spencer Cox announced last week that public K-12 schools will not be required to have a mask requirement during their final week of school. He said the decision was a compromise between people who wanted the mandate removed immediately and those in favor of keeping it. It was also made because COVID-19 cases in schools have been declining, he said.
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K-12 schools in Utah will not be required to have a mask mandate in place during the last week of the academic year. This story and more in Thursday evening s news brief.
Thursday evening, May 13, 2021
State
Red Rock Wilderness Battle Continues With Trolling Legislation
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-UT, and Rep. John Curtis, R-UT, introduced legislation Thursday to designate 289,000 acres of land in Illinois as federally protected wilderness. It’s an attempt to troll Sen. Dick Durbin, D-IL, who introduced America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act Monday that would designate 8.4 million acres in Utah as federally-protected wilderness areas. Out-of-state politicians shouldn’t make decisions about Utah’s public lands, Romney and Curtis said. An aide for Durbin told KUER the senator supports conserving lands in Illinois.