More Kentucky school districts extending mask requirements

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — School boards in a growing number of Kentucky’s school districts have extended mask requirements. The decisions come as the state struggles to curb one of the nation’s worst COVID-19 infection rates. So far, 110 of the state’s 171 public school districts have opted to continue requiring masks in schools. That’s according to the Kentucky School Boards Association’s latest count Wednesday morning. Kentucky’s Republican-led legislature last week empowered school boards with setting masking policies in their districts. Lawmakers voted to scrap a statewide mask mandate for public schools. The statewide mask mandate approved by the state school board ends Friday.