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Starting Monday, every student in South Carolina's second largest school district will have to wear a mask inside schools or have to go to online learning. Charleston County schools passed a mask rule in August, but was working to find a away around a South Carolina budget rule that state money can't be spent to enforce masks in schools. The district will use reserve money so state money from this budget year is not used.
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Porter Boever's family is part of of an ACLU lawsuit claiming South Carolina's budget proviso banning mask mandates in schools violates the American's with Disabilities Act
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South Carolina's Latest COVID Surge is Flooding Hospitals, Exhausting Medics, and Affecting ChildrenDoctors and health professionals are frustrated by what they say is a preventable surge in Delta variant cases. Their message – wear masks and get vaccinated – hasn't changed, and they want more people to listen to it.
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Parents, teachers and medical professionals debate a state law that prohibits schools from requiring masks even as the Delta variant surges with kids heading back to class.
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The University of South Carolina is requiring students to wear masks indoors this fall as the spread of COVID-19 has sped up across the state. School officials said Friday that masks are again required inside campus buildings given Richland County's high coronavirus transmission rate. The announcement follows recently updated federal guidance that calls for mask-wearing indoors regardless of vaccination status in areas where the delta variant is rapidly spreading.