Teacher sues Phoenix Union High School District over mask mandate | State of Arizona Schools

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5/AP) – The school district that chose to go against state law by requiring masks at school is now facing the first official legal challenge to its policy. On Monday, the same day kids in Phoenix Union High School District went back to class, Metro Tech High School biology teacher Douglas Hester filed a lawsuit against the district.






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Phoenix Union High School District, which has about 28,000 students and 4,000 employees, announced a mask requirement for teachers and students last Friday.




“What is important is making sure that the government is not above the law,” said Hester’s attorney Alexander Kolodin. “We’re just asking the court to say, one, the policies and procedures that the Phoenix Union High School District have enacted are unlawful and they can’t do it anymore.” The suit doesn’t (and can’t) seek monetary damages (although it does request attorneys’ fees).

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Youthful grown ups have most affordable vaccination quantities in health and fitness district | VTx

As the push to vaccinate as lots of folks as feasible continues in the New River Valley, the New River Health District claims just one demographic appears to be lagging driving. It’s these who are 30 decades previous and more youthful who are eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine.

“A ton of men and women in the more youthful populace are inclined to come to feel that COVID may possibly not be very as dangerous for them, and in most cases, that is legitimate,” claimed Noelle Bissell, the district’s wellbeing director, although conversing with associates of the information media on Monday, June 28. “But that’s not 100 per cent real. We do have normally younger and balanced persons who have gotten unwell with COVID and have died.”

The district’s staff and volunteers carry on to vacation to neighborhood occasions and other web-sites to supply COVID-19 vaccines. The district also will carry

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