Many students in eastern Iowa are heading back to school this week- but an investigation KCRG-TV9 in Cedar Rapids found no one is enforcing the state law requiring those students to get vaccinated or have exemptions.
State law says students shall not attend classes without getting the required vaccinations or getting medical or religious exemptions, but there is no punishment for school districts that allow those students to go to class anyway, and districts are trusted to police themselves.
The Iowa Department of Public Health says about 3,000 students in the state did not have required vaccination records last school year. According to Iowa Code, those kids should have been banned from class.