Federal intervention in the school masking debate

1 big thing

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🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The ongoing battle among local, state and federal officials over COVID precautions in schools continues. The US Department of Education has now launched a civil rights investigation into five GOP-led states that have banned mask mandates in schools. Plus, the return of evictions in America. And, Amazon steps into the live audio business. Guests: Axios' Ben Montgomery, Linh Ta, Felix Salmon, and Sara Fischer. Credits: Axios Today is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Hope King, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Dan Bobkoff, Alexandra Botti, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Sabeena Singhani, and Ben O'Brien. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893. Go deeper: Florida school districts face mask free-for-all after judge strikes down DeSantis' ban U.S. Education Department launches probe into Iowa's mask mandate ban The return of evictions Scoop: Amazon quietly building live audio business Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.0	It is Wednesday, September 1st, I'm Hope King, filling in for Nyla Budu.
0:40.3	Here's what we're watching today.
0:42.5	The return of evictions in America, plus Amazon is the latest to step into a live audio
0:48.0	business, but first, better intervention in the school masking debate is today's one
0:53.2	big thing.
1:00.2	The ongoing battle among local state and federal officials over COVID precautions in schools
1:04.9	continues.
1:06.1	The U.S. Department of Education has now launched a civil rights investigation into five
1:10.4	GOP-led states, which have banned mask mandates in schools.
1:14.7	This morning, we're zooming in on Iowa, one of the states under investigation as well
1:18.1	as Florida, which was able to avoid the federal probe.
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