Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker announces in a press conference at the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, that the state's indoor mask mandate in response to the COVID-19 pandemic will be lifted by the end of February.
U-46 Superintendent of Schools Tony Sanders, shown in a file picture from Oakhill Elementary School in 2021, announced Friday that the Elgin-based district's mask policy will change to strongly recommended. The three justices said that “because the emergency rules voided by the TRO are no longer in effect, a controversy regarding the application of those rules no longer exists. Thus, the matter is moot.”
Sanders said the Wednesday start allows the district time to address concerns of teachers or families and allows teachers time to adjust their classroom setups, if need be. U-46 schools are closed Monday in observance of President’s Day. [Most read] Man arrested in Chicago on charges of breaching US Capitol with mob; ‘I was tear-gassed ... but I still stayed on the front lines’“It is important to note that these local guidelines give the district the ability to increase mitigations, including masking, in the case of a significant rise in cases,” Sanders said in the newsletter.
However, Sanders says, for each campus, “If the positivity rate at any school is considered substantial, based on confirmed positive cases, student absences due to reported symptoms, or through identification through SHIELD testing, masks would be required.”
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