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Iowa Schools Reopen As Pandemic Persists

Iowa Public Radio | By Grant Gerlock,
Clay Masters
Published August 23, 2021 at 10:46 AM CDT
Schools in Iowa will hold classes in-person this year, but cannot requires masks as they could for most of the 2020 school year.
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Schools in Iowa will hold classes in-person this year, but cannot requires masks as they could for most of the 2020 school year.

Many districts in Iowa are welcoming students back for the first day of school on Monday just as the state experiences a surge of COVID-19 infections driven by the delta variant of the coronavirus. While families and teachers were hoping for a year unaffected by the pandemic, that's not the case.

Clay Masters talks to Iowa Public Radio reporter Grant Gerlock to preview a new school year with new concerns about the coronavirus.

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Grant Gerlock
Grant Gerlock is IPR's Assistant News Director, with expertise in reporting on education policy, the Iowa Legislature, water quality, and news in Central Iowa, all with an eye to helping Iowans better understand their communities and the state. He's covered education policy from the state to local level, environmental concerns and local policy implementations across the Des Moines and surrounding area, among many more stories, for IPR, NPR and other media organizations. Gerlock is a graduate of Miami University (Ohio).
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Clay Masters
Clay Masters is the senior politics reporter for MPR News.
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