“In Florida, there will be no lockdowns, there will be no school closures, there will be no restrictions and no mandates in the state of Florida,” the governor said during his appearance at a restaurant in Cape Coral.

He also said he will be signing an executive order to issue emergency rules for “protecting the rights of parents,” which will allow them to decide whether their children should wear masks in schools.

His announcement comes after the Broward County Public Schools District said they would once again require students to wear masks at the start of the 2021-22 school year.

That is a moral decision,” Broward School Board Chair Rosalind Osgood said Wednesday.

Osgood said the decision was made due to the liability and responsibility they have as a school board, but she said they would abide by the law if the governor were to issue an executive order banning mask mandates at schools.

to offer full in-person learning last school year and said a study from Brown University found no correlation of case rates and mask mandates at schools.

Regardless, DeSantis said it must be up to parents to decide whether their children should wear masks to school.