Gov. Larry Hogan Says Republican Governors Mandating Against Masks “Taking Away” Freedom Of School Systems

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) —  Governor Larry Hogan said Republican governors who are blocking disguise mandates are violating what helium says is simply a basal blimpish Republican principle: “letting section determination makers marque decisions.”

On CBS This Morning connected Tuesday, Gayle King asked Hogan what helium thought of chap Republican governors similar Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbot, who are battling localities and schoolhouse systems that privation to instrumentality disguise mandates.

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“Not lone are they against it, but they’re mandating against it,” Hogan said. “They’re Republican governors who are saying they’re each astir freedom, and yet they’re taking distant the state of section schoolhouse systems and successful immoderate cases businesses to marque those decisions for themselves.”

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In aboriginal August, Hogan said a statewide disguise mandate is not connected the table, but helium isn’t warring schoolhouse systems that opt for masks.  In the region, Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Howard County,  Anne Arundel County and Harford County will require masks successful schools. Masks volition beryllium optional successful Carroll County.

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“We’ve tried to find the close balance, we’ve been encouraging disguise usage. We near it up to the duly elected schoolhouse boards successful our state—that’s who has the powerfulness to marque those decisions,” Hogan told King. “About two-thirds of our schoolhouse systems voted to deterioration masks, others decided not to. But to mandate that they person to oregon mandate that they cannot doesn’t marque consciousness to me.”

CBS Baltimore Staff