The requirements will be phased in by grade groups -- 7-12 and K-6 -- and will start for each group only after the Food and Drug Administration fully approves the vaccine for that cohort, the governor's office said in a news release.
The requirement will go into effect as the start of the term that follows the FDA's full approval for that grade group -- either January 1 or July 1, the governor's office added in its release. "This will accelerate our effort to get this pandemic behind us," Newsom told CNN's Ana Cabrera minutes after making the announcement."We already mandate 10 vaccines. In so many ways... it's probably the most predictable announcement."