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Schools Are Deciding What The New CDC Mask Guidelines Mean For The Classroom

It is unclear what impact this will have on teachers, staff and students in the near term. In some states, masks in schools are already optional.
Updated May 13, 2021 at 10:49 PM ET

This week has brought a few dizzying updates to the year-long school-reopening story.

In a surprise move, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , telling people who have been fully vaccinated that, with some exceptions, they can now gather indoors as well as outside without face masks or social distancing. The announcement came just one day after the

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