Gov. Phil Murphy made it official at his COVID-19 briefing on Friday afternoon. New Jersey’s students, teachers and staff in all schools, be they public, private, parochial or preschool, will be required to wear masks inside of school buildings regardless of their vaccination status when they return to schools in the fall.

Murphy justified his decision, a turnaround from earlier this summer when he said masking decisions would be left to local school boards, by saying he was committed to keeping…