State education officials earlier this month announced the extension of masking requirements in K-12 schools. But they also quietly tucked in a change affecting a small number of schools where local officials have opted to drop the mask mandate.
The press release the department issued this monthsaid schools above the 80% threshold will still have the ability to lift the mask mandate, but did not mention how unvaccinated individuals would be affected in those cases.
Board of Elementary and Secondary Education meetings this academic year have featured testimony from parents, students and health professionals with various stances on masking, and mask debates have played out before local school committees. As case counts and soared this winter and hospital beds filled up with COVID patients, some legislative Democrats have been calling for the Baker administration to re-impose a statewide universal mask mandate. At a Jan. 11
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