Pa. court throws out state’s school mask mandate

By TAYLOR BROWN-HERMAN
tbrown@yourmvi.com
Despite a state court on Wednesday throwing out an order by Pennsylvania’s acting health secretary that requires masks inside K-12 schools and child care facilities, face coverings won’t go away just yet.
Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court ruled, just days after Gov. Tom Wolf announced the mandate would be lifted, returning the decision to local leaders come January, that Pennsylvania’s Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam did not have the authority to implement the order in the first place.

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