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All students and staff—regardless of age or vaccination status—should keep wearing masks as vaccine hesitancy and breakthrough infections prolong the COVID pandemic, the CDC said Tuesday.

As district leaders moved quickly to follow the CDC's call to mandate masks this school year, officials in other states declared that families will choose whether students wear face coverings.

All New York City teachers must be fully vaccinated against COVID by Sept. 13, the first day of school, or submit to weekly testing, Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered Monday.

With the Delta variant spreading and younger children ineligible for vaccines, states are barring schools from requiring COVID vaccinations as 2021-22 approaches.

With the Delta variant rising, the response from various state officials has been all over the map.

The American Academy of Pediatrics says districts may have to require vaccinations and also urges students and teachers to keep wearing masks when the school year starts.