The president of the Newark Teachers Union, which supports the mask mandate, said city officials who consulted with the district were uncomfortable with coronavirus levels in some neighborhoods.
The schools were following the lead of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who maintained some of the state’sfor non-district spaces, in not relaxing the requirement for the state’s largest district, which includes 65 traditional public schools with more than 35,000 students, plus 6,000 teachers, administrators, counselors, maintenance workers and other staff.
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