The San Antonio school district plans to survey staff and families after spring break to determine whether it should lift its requirement.
Interim San Antonio Independent School District Superintendent Robert Jaklich , speaks with school board member Sarah Sorensen. The district continues to enforce a mandatory mask policy as positive COVID-19 cases continue to fall.The few area school districts that still have mask mandates plan to drop them this month, two weeks after federal recommendations were eased for most of the country, leaving the San Antonio Independent School District as the apparent lone holdout.
“The decision was made as we enter a new phase of the COVID pandemic coupled with the improvement of the most recent metrics with the risk level in our city, the Edgewood community and the district’s high vaccination rate and low positivity rates,” Superintendent Eduardo Hernandez wrote in a letter to students, staff and families.
SAISD’s positivity rate fell from 2.5% in mid-February to 1% in the first week of March, according to Jaklich’s letter. The district conducts weekly COVID-19 testing for students and staff who want to get tested through a partnership with local nonprofit Community Labs.Feb. 25 to allow people in communities with low COVID-19 transmission rates to forgo wearing masks indoors.
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