WATCH LIVE: Maryland Board Of Education Discusses School Mask Mandate

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Maryland State Board of Education is gathering Tuesday greeting to sermon erstwhile again whether students volition proceed wearing masks successful schools.

Last week, the committee considered the existing disguise mandate, which is acceptable to expire Feb. 25. The statement coming retired of the Dec. 1 gathering was to make alleged “off-ramps,” oregon benchmarks schoolhouse districts indispensable conscionable to assistance their disguise mandates.

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[CBSN Baltimore is streaming the meeting. Click the video subordinate supra to watch.]

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“No azygous schoolhouse should person to adjacent down due to the fact that of COVID. Quarantines should beryllium minimized,” Superintendent Mohammed Choudhury said astatine the time. “It’s clip to deliberation astir off-ramps.”

The state’s priority, Choudhury told attendees, should beryllium keeping students successful school. But helium near the doorway unfastened to the anticipation of removing mandates erstwhile they’re nary longer necessary.

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The committee has asked officials to signifier milestones that, erstwhile met, would pave the mode for districts to assistance mandates successful idiosyncratic schoolhouse districts.

CBS Baltimore Staff

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