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(Johnston, IA) -- Hundreds of Des Moines area students are exempt from wearing a facemask in school. Students and parents had applied for health, religious, or learning disability exemptions. Johnston School District Communications Director Laura Sprague tells WHO-13 nearly 270 students have had mask exemptions approved. Nearly 200 exemptions have been approved in Urbandale and just over 100 have been approved in Des Moines.