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Mar 2022
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Masks off for California's school kids &...

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California is ready to let school kids show their faces.  It's lifting the statewide mask mandate in schools, in two weeks. But state public health officials are going to great pains to recommend continued mask wearing in classrooms, even if it's not mandatory.

And the ultimate decisions on ending or continuing mask mandates will fall to individual school districts.

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