December 9th, 2021 by WCBC Radio
Although the Maryland Board of Education voted this week to allow individual school systems to lift mask mandate under certain conditions- locally none of those conditions are close to being met. Those conditions are either an individual school has at least 80% of its students and staff fully vaccinated, a school's home county has 80% of residents fully vaccinated, or a school's home county's transmission rate falls to moderate or low for at least 14 days. Allegany County’s percentage of population fully vaccinated remains as less than 50%. There was a passionate plea from state school Superintendent Mohammed Choudhury to board members to sign off on an emergency masking regulation that puts limits on school districts on when they could lift mask mandates..
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