Does my child need to wear a mask for school? What are the rules for masks and back to school? Here's a look at the school mask rules state-by-state.

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 ...

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.

One week into the 2023–2024 school year, a Maryland elementary school has reinstated mask mandates. Because “three or more” individuals tested positive for Covid, an email sent to parents ...

COVID spike has GOP fighting over mask mandates and bans. The White House wants no part of it.

Critics of anti-pandemic measures prompted schools to end mask mandates, but doing so exposed millions to COVID infection, contributing to nearly 22,000 deaths.

Epidemiologists "know transmission better than I do. And better than Ted Cruz does, too," said Education Secretary Miguel Cardona.

CDC leadership was focused on internal equity trainings in March 2021 while Americans waited to hear when their kids would be back in the classroom, new records show.

The CDC, which oversees federal rulemaking around masking policies, told Newsweek last Thursday that it currently had no plan to revive COVID-era mask mandates.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a mask mandate for airplanes, airports and other hubs in 2021, but a federal judge struck it down in 2022.