Morton school district to sue state in bid to implement its own COVID-19 mitigation plan – NPR (Illinois)

The school board's vote was unanimous; Theey argue the state doesn't have the authority to remove recognition status and withhold funding from schools which don't follow COVID-19 mitigations, such as mandatory masking. District leaders say they've exhausted all other options after writing to the governor's office, ISBE, state superintendent, and Illinois Department of Public Health to advocate for localized mitigations.