After weeks of debate over schoolchildren wearing masks as a COVID-19 mitigation measure, Pennsylvania’s acting Health Secretary Alison Beam has issued an order requiring masks to be worn inside K-12 school buildings, early learning programs, and childcare providers. The order, announced Tuesday, takes effect Sept. 7 and applies to everyone in education buildings, vaccinated or not. Students spent most of the last school year in cyber school, isolated at their home computers. When they returned to classes, they wore masks as part of a Health Department order calling for everyone in the general public to wear masks. That universal mask order was lifted as the vaccine became available and more people got the shots. Children are statically less likely to contract COVID-19. Vaccines are now available for anyone age 12 and up. Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, originally said any future masking orders would be enacted at the local level. …