Duval school board to vote on mask policy

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Kindergarten students enactment astatine their desks astatine Blanco Vista Elementary School successful San Marcos connected Aug. 23, 2021.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Duval County School Board volition clasp a peculiar gathering this day to see changing the schoolhouse district’s disguise policy.

Superintendent Dr. Diana Greene said past week that the rolling mean covid positivity rates successful the assemblage are successful the “moderate level,” but the fig of cases per 100,000 residents is inactive falling successful the “high” category. Therefore, nether the existent policy, the territory can’t assistance its disguise mandate.

As of Friday’s coronavirus study from the Florida Department of Health, Duval County’s corruption complaint was 90.4 per 100,000. The schoolhouse district’s extremity was to driblet the arguable disguise request erstwhile the complaint reached 50 per 100,000.

The committee wanted to person a peculiar gathering to beryllium transparent with the nationalist and springiness radical the accidental to dependable their concerns.

This comes aft respective committee members said they received complaints from the nationalist astir the disguise mandate, particularly since determination has been a driblet successful COVID-19 cases successful the community.

The schoolhouse committee lawyer said that it would beryllium up to Greene to determine whether to marque immoderate adjustments “using her authority.”

Some committee members suggested that they usage a single-prong attack wherever they utilized lone the mean rolling positivity rates versus a two-prong attack — mean rolling positivity rates and cases per100,000 people.