The Biden administration needs to quickly address this toddler masking issue.

Head Start programs need to stop mandating masks.

While mask mandates have been lifted for most Americans — from toddlers at New York City child care centers to Americans flying the friendly skies — there is one population that is still required to mask up for hours every single day: toddlers at the nation’s Head Start programs, which are basically pre-schools for low-income children.

As toddlers and young children have unmasked nearly everywhere else, Head Start programs have continued to mandate masks and questions have been raised for months now about the rule. In the past, many justified the policy by arguing that toddlers couldn’t be vaccinated, but yesterday that changed.

Now that anxious parents have the option to vaccinate their toddlers, I would argue it is time for the the White House to press Health and Human Services to formally end the rule as quickly as possible. The New York Post provides an excellent summary of where things stand:

The Office of Head Start notified programs in February that officials would not evaluate compliance with the mask requirement during monitoring visits until further…