In reversal, Pennsylvania governor says masks now required for K-12 students and child care centers
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Reversing course Tuesday, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced a mask mandate in the state for all schools and licensed child care centers. The new requirement will take effect on Tuesday, September 7, the day after Labor Day, CBS Philly reported.
It requires students, teachers and staff to wear masks when inside school buildings. This is something the Wolf administration wanted to avoid, but the skyrocketing number of COVID-19 cases in Pennsylvania prompted the governor to take action.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.