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The Leon County School District along with 10 others are facing potential fines over their mandatory mask policies. The State Board of education is slated to take up findings that the districts have, or are, violating the state’s effort to ban mandatory masking.

Five Florida school districts are again challenging a Department of Health rule that bans mandatory mask policies. The rule is an outgrowth of an executive order from Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Five Florida school districts are again challenging a Department of Health rule that bans mandatory mask policies. The rule is an outgrowth of an executive order from Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Some school districts that have imposed student mask requirements aren’t backing down, despite state threats of financial penalties and a revamped Florida Department of Health rule aimed at bolstering parental choice on masks.

The Florida Board of Education is likely to find nearly a dozen school districts are or have been violating the state’s school mask rules. The board is expected to get an update on the districts at a meeting next week.

The Leon County School District will allow asymptomatic children to stay in school. Those students will still have to wear a mask, though.

The Florida Department of Health’s rule change has short-circuited a lawsuit filed by several school districts over COVID-19 mitigation protocols.

Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration has asked an appeals court to block challenges filed by five school boards against a Department of Health rule aimed at preventing students from being forced to wear masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A federal judge Wednesday rejected a request by parents of disabled children to block Gov. Ron DeSantis’ efforts to prevent school districts from requiring students to wear masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Parents suing to overturn Gov. Ron DeSantis’s effort to ban school mask mandates, are asking Florida’s top court to take up the case.