Since December, COVID-19 cases in the municipality and school district had risen sharply during the omicron wave before starting to decline in recent weeks.
At one point in late January, the district had 1,184 active virus cases, but by Friday, the district’s dashboard showed 93 active cases. Multiple states nationwide have also opted to lift mask mandates for schools, though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still recommends universal indoor masking within schools.
While the mask requirement is dropping, the school district will keep PCR testing in the schools as well as cleaning, ventilation and spacing protocols, Bishop said. “We haven’t just carte blanche said, ‘Everything’s over, we don’t care about anything,’ ” Bishop said. “What we have done has really taken the availability of stair-stepping down the strongest mitigation to those that are most appropriate.”Morgan Krakow is a general assignment reporter for the Anchorage Daily News. She is a 2019 graduate of the University of Oregon and spent the summer of 2019 as a reporting intern on the general assignment desk of The Washington Post.
Bad move.
CPD_AK WRONG
Thanks Deena. In the unfortunate event of another high community spread, you have given anti mask parents and students all the unfounded ammunition they need to ensure we can't require masks to keep teachers and students safe. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Who gives a crap about these kids or their soccer moms. Go for it. If we’re lucky we might reduce the crappy gene pool in Alaska by a few more people.
My all white all conservative teenager high school is about to become a mass grave
I'll still gonna be rocking a KN95
How about underwear, are those going to be optional as well?
What the frick, cbjuneau
optional mask-wearing only serves to stigmatize the responsible while increasing the risk of Covid spread to all students..shameful policy..better to set standards (no community spread) before removing masking policies in schools..
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