{"id":146137,"date":"2021-09-18T01:44:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T06:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=146137"},"modified":"2021-09-20T01:20:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T06:20:27","slug":"more-than-half-of-ohio-k-12-students-must-wear-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/09\/18\/more-than-half-of-ohio-k-12-students-must-wear-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"50% of Ohio K-12 students wearing masks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Independent staff and submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; Ohio Governor Mike DeWine on Friday announced that nearly 58 percent of Ohio\u2019s public K-12 students are required by their local school to wear masks in schools. On September 1,&nbsp;only 35 percent of Ohio students were required to wear a mask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/COVID-19-graphic-5-2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-131396\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am pleased to see more school superintendents and school boards make the right decision and require masks to protect students and teachers from COVID-19 spread,\u201d said Governor DeWine. \u201cWe share a common goal of ensuring kids are in school, in person, five days a week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile vaccinations remain the best protection against severe COVID-19 cases, masking will help protect those that can\u2019t yet receive the vaccine and adds another layer of protection for those that have,\u201d the governor added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The school mask policies are working to limit the spread. In Ohio school districts where masks are optional, case rates are higher than in districts that require some masking, and state officials see better week-to-week trends in schools where everyone wears a mask.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most importantly, there have been fewer quarantines in schools where everyone wears a mask, helping us towards meeting the goal of keeping Ohio children in the classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent staff and submitted information COLUMBUS &#8212; Ohio Governor Mike DeWine on Friday announced that nearly 58 percent of Ohio\u2019s public K-12 students are required by their local school to wear masks in schools. On September 1,&nbsp;only 35 percent of Ohio students were required to wear a mask. \u201cI am pleased to see more school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 13:15:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}