Mar 11, 2022, 4:44 PM
(From EdWeek) As schools and business around the country begin to lift their mask requirements, legal and medical experts caution that schools be aware of federal laws’ required protections for medically at-risk students. They note that federal laws such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, which require districts to provide “reasonable accommodations” for students with a wide range of disabilities, may apply to children who can't ware masks, or produce insufficient antibodies from vaccines, because of their medical conditions. Legal experts said that districts may need to consider a suite of protections for such students, including, in some cases, requiring some people to mask around them.
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