Arizona. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey banned mask mandates earlier this summer, but some schools have chosen to defy his order. Alhambra Elementary School District, Brophy College Preparatory ...

Though instances of mask mandates around the country are rare, Republican politicians have sounded the alarm over some cases, such as an elementary school in Maryland that required students to ...

Ginny Lauren Dowden, a mom from Fayetteville, Arkansas, fought for her daughter to be exempt from school mask mandates amid COVID — a battle that took an emotional toll.

As school gets underway and coronavirus cases rise, masks are returning to some American classrooms — and reviving the country’s fraught political debate over whether face coverings are common ...

At the start of the 2021-22 school year, about 65% of students in the U.S. were subject to mask mandates. By the spring of 2022, the proportion had fallen below 10%.

A CDC spokesperson also recently said that "rumors we've seen about plans for mask mandates are not true." Update 9/17/23, 7:30 a.m. ET: This article has been updated to add a post from Ted Cruz ...

A man wears an American flag face mask on July 19, 2021, on a street in Hollywood, California. An uptick in cases has prompted concerns that mask mandates could be reintroduced.

Montgomery County Public Schools’ Spring 2023 mask policy is voluntary, except “as required by CDC COVID-19 guidelines for isolation, for individuals who become sick at school or are returning ...