State efforts to ban mask mandates in schools mirror resistance to integration
- Written by: Dustin Hornbeck, Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Educational Leadership and Policy, University of Texas Arlington
Southern states' bans on mask mandates in schools may violate the rights of disabled students. Matthew Hatcher/Getty ImagesWhen the U.S. Supreme Court issued its 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision that struck down segregated public schooling, white Southern politicians responded to the decision with ferocity.
Although preservation of...
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