Under a law signed on Feb. 16 by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, public school districts in the commonwealth will have to allow parents to decide whether their child wears a mask at school.
“Children have not only suffered learning loss, they have suffered relationship loss,” Youngkin said at a ceremony outside Virginia’s Capitol building. “Now is our chance to give all parents the rights to make decisions we know they have, to put it into law. Today, we are establishing and restoring power back to parents. But we are also reestablishing our expectations that we will get back to normal, and this is the path.”
