Decision comes amid major surge in NC cases
The Currituck County Schools announced on the evening of July 28 that the Currituck Board of Education has voted to make masks optional for the 2021-2022 school year, although they will be required on bus transportation.
That decision rejects the CDC’s July 27 recommendation that all staff and K-12 students wear face coverings regardless of vaccination status. Almost a week earlier, on July 21, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper unveiled new guidelines that encourage North Carolina’s public schools to continue requiring students, staff and guests in grades K-8 to wear masks, while directing that districts ensure that all unvaccinated individuals in high schools continue to wear a face covering indoors.
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