New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that the statewide masking requirement in schools will be lifted Wednesday. Hochul said counties and cities could keep their own mandates in place, and parents could still choose to send their kids to school in masks.
FILE — Students wearing masks leave the New Explorations into Science, Technology and Math school in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, Dec. 21, 2021, in New York. New York City public school students will be allowed to remove their masks outside starting next week but must keep them on indoors for now. Schools Chancellor David Banks announced the new policy in a news release Friday, Feb. 25, 2022.
In a briefing held in Albany, the Democrat cited declining COVID-19 cases and guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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