Without Court Stay, Mandate May Have Big Impact on Schools

Last week, the Supreme Court heard arguments over whether it should stay OSHA’s mandate for large employers, which went into effect on January 10^th, and will require 84 million Americans to either become vaccinated or submit to masking and weekly COVID testing. Through circuitous legal logic, that mandate would only apply to about half the nation’s teachers, and of those, about half already operate under similar vaccination requirements. Despite the limited direct impacts, the mandates indirect impacts on the nations’ schools could be dramatic.