Federal judge deals blow to vaccine mandate for NYC teachers

Teachers rally at a demonstration against Covid-19 vaccination mandates, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021, in New York. | Mary Altaffer/AP Photo

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

09/25/2021 12:37 PM EDT

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NEW YORK — New York City schools have been temporarily blocked from enforcing a vaccine mandate for its teachers and other workers by a federal appeals judge just days before it was to take effect.

The worker mandate for the the nation’s largest school system was set to go into effect Monday. But late Friday, a judge for the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a temporary injunction and referred

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