Chicago Public Schools will go mask optional beginning March 14, the district announced today. The decision comes despite a safety agreement CPS has with the Chicago Teachers Union,
Chicago Public Schools will go mask optional beginning next week, the district announced Monday, as the number of COVID-19 cases and quarantines continues to drop.The district said it will move to a mask-optional model for all staff and across all grade levels on March 14. While CPS will continue to encourage the use of masks, “the shift will give families and employees a choice about whether or not to wear a mask at school, outside on school property, and on school buses,” the district said.
The decision comes despite a safety agreement CPS has with the Chicago Teachers Union — whose members refused to work in schools for five days earlier this year while that deal was negotiated — that promised to keep masks on students and staff through the end of the current school year.called the move “extremely troubling”“If CPS moves toward making masks optional without bargaining to do so safely, this refusal to honor our agreement will have consequences,” he wrote.
More than 91% of all CPS employees are fully vaccinated, but fewer than half of all students are fully vaccinated. But the CTU has noted that vaccination rates vary wildly across the city, particularly in Black and Brown neighborhoods where those rates are much lower.
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