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Charlie Baker Says Leave Vaccine Mandates Up To Local School Districts

August 31, 2021

Should there be a coronavirus vaccine mandate for teachers and other employees in Massachusetts public schools?

It’s not a decision that Governor Charlie Baker wants to make.

Instead, he wants to defer that decision-making to individual school districts.

“I certainly would hope that most folks — especially since the teachers unions have expressed an interest in supporting vaccinations for everybody in the school building — would be willing to engage in those discussions and see where they can go,” Baker said this week, according to State House News Service. “But again, that is something that under state law and collective bargaining and everything else really does belong to the local level.”

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