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Updated: Schools expected to decide masking requirements; Parents push for choice

Public school students in our area will head back to class in about two weeks, and the majority of school systems in our region have yet to tell parents whether or not their child will be forced to wear a mask indoors.

Prince William County 

Officials in the state's second-largest school division said the system's new superintendent, Dr. Latayna McDade, who is in the midst of navigating her first 100-day honeymoon phase -- would be the one to make the call as to whether or not your child will need to wear a mask.

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