CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Governor Pritzker is assailing a central Illinois judge’s ruling that halts his mask mandate in schools as “poor legal reasoning” and encourages districts not named in the suit to keep the requirement in place.
The governor said school districts across the state are in a fog after Sangamon County Judge Raylene Grischow granted the temporary restraining order. He said he’s asked Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul to try to get the ruling overturned as soon as possible.
"The judge's decision cultivates chaos for parents, families, teachers, and school administrators across the state," Pritzker said.
To address some of that confusion, he said Raoul's staff talked with school superintendents over the weekend and said districts should stay the course.
"Listen, you ought to err on the side of protecting everybody in the school, and particularly all the people who interact with the school," Pritzker said.
Governor Pritzker said while COVID numbers are heading in the right direction, he’ll continue to look at hospitalizations as the metric to determine when he’ll drop the mask mandate.
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