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Collected Item: “Virginia's Law Barring Mask Mandates Does Not Apply to 12 Children with Disabilities”

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Virginia's Law Barring Mask Mandates Does Not Apply to 12 Children with Disabilities

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text story

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A news article from NPR talks about the parents of 12 children that challegned against the newly signed in law by Governor Glenn Youngkin to halt the enforcement of that law because it violated the children's rights under the federal American with Disabilities Act. This law would only give parents the right to choose for their own children. The group of parents have kids with health conditions that range from asthma to cystic fibrosis, which put them at heightened risk for COVID-19. What about other kids that have health conditions that make them a heightened risk for COVID whose parents didn't say their federal rights were violated?

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ASU, HST580, Disability, Virginia

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https://www.npr.org/2022/03/25/1088849364/virginia-mask-mandate-schools

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Deepa Shivaram

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2022-03-25
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