Andover Public Schools: APS School Committee Policy On Masks

Press release from Andover Public Schools:

February 9, 2022

On Wednesday, February 9th, Governor Charlie Baker and Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley announced that they will not be renewing DESE’s statewide mask mandate, which expires on Monday, February 28, 2022. DESE added that the decision on masks in school will be made at a local level by individual school districts.

The Andover School Committee implemented the APS mask policy EBCFA on August 16, 2021, before the start of the 2021-22 school year. Based on this information from state officials, Dr. Parvey will be joined by APS’s director of nursing and town public health officials at the next School Committee meeting on Thursday, February 17, 2022, to present recent COVID-19 data and to provide a recommendation regarding masks in schools to the Committee. It is anticipated that the Committee will deliberate on the district’s mask policy at the same meeting. 

This press release was produced by Andover Public Schools. The views expressed here are the author’s own.