With nearly 800 students in quarantine and 204 active cases of COVID-19, a Central Texas school district has begun requiring masks this week.
The Texas Education Agency said last week that about four dozen school districts, representing about 42,000 students, had stopped offering in-person classes since the start of the school year because of Covid-19. In East Texas, more than 20 districts closed for several days to deep-clean classrooms; a majority were scheduled to reopen Tuesday, NBC Dallas-Fort Worth reported.
. One of the teachers was 41, and the other was 59; both worked at Connally Junior High School, but school officials said they did not believe there was a correlation.
Many larger school districts in the state have declined to follow the executive order Abbott issued in July barring the mandating of masks and vaccines. While the state Supreme Court upheld the order,The Texas Education Agency has previously said public schools were under
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