Individual school districts will maintain the power to decide whether to require masks for students and staff.
“This power has been given to the school boards by a bill that the governor signed," the judge said, emphasizing that anyone who uses a bill has to follow all of its provisions, not just some of them.
He said the state thought that the Parents' Bill of Rights allowed it to enforce this "blanket prohibition" of masks, but that "the defendants' assertion in this regard is incorrect."
Cooper explained that while Florida law does give parents the right to oversee health issues for their children, it exempts reasonable actions needed to protect public health. According to the judge, this includes a school district's decision to require students and staff to wear masks.
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