The California Supreme Court rejected an appeal Feb. 21 to a prior ruling that said school districts cannot require students to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
In October 2021, Let Them Choose—an initiative of education advocacy group Let Them Breathe—sued the San Diego Unified School District over its proposed COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students over 16.
In November, the state’s Fourth District Court of Appeals ruled in November that school districts had no authority to mandate vaccines.
However, that ruling was appealed shortly after by two charter schools and state Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento).
The state Supreme Court affirmed the Fourth District Court of Appeals’ ruling in a 3–0 opinion saying that only the state had the authority to mandate vaccines in schools….