Reporter roundtable: Masks in schools

Coming to a consensus about best practices in COVID times has proven difficult time and time again, especially for schools. The situation became even more complicated when a judge granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting mask requirements and vaccinations in schools across the state. 

With Illinois set to lift the statewide indoor mask mandate on February 28, 2022, questions remain about what’s next in the case of schools. We were joined by two reporters who've been following the story.

GUESTS: 

Dan Petrella

State government reporter, Chicago Tribune

Andrew Adams

Public Affairs Reporting Intern with the State Journal-Register as part of the Public Affairs Reporting program, University of Illinois Springfield

@ILAttyGeneral and @GovPritzker are asking a state appellate court to set aside a lower court order from late Friday that invalidated the mask and vaccine mandates that the state-imposed last year for public schools. https://t.co/ep1iiBV4iR

— Illinois Public Media (@ILPublicMedia) February 8, 2022

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