When classes resume Monday following a two-week winter break, all adults, including teachers, entering Miami-Dade schools will be required to wear masks, Superintendent Alberto Carvalho announced Thursday.
Students, however, will be 鈥渟trongly encouraged鈥� to wear masks while indoors, he said. Recent legislation that Gov. DeSantis signed into law in November prevents the district from imposing a mask mandate for students, he said.
鈥淚t鈥檚 clear that the increase in cases is mainly driven by the highly contagious omicron variant,鈥� Carvalho said outside the school district offices. 鈥淲e are forced to do what we鈥檝e done for a long period of time, which is embrace protective protocols鈥� for the well-being of our students and workforce.
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