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A day after K-12 students returned to classrooms with a statewide mask mandate no longer in place, the Baker administration announced that children no longer need to mask up while

The Lenox School Committee has voted unanimously for a new COVID-19 policy developed by the district’s administration and the union representing teachers and other staff.

The new policy will go into effect Friday

With caseloads falling fast, the MPS school board is holding a special meeting Thursday night to take another look at its protocols.

The Lenox School Committee holds a public forum on Tuesday to discuss whether pandemic restrictions such as mandated indoor masking should be eased. Members would be well-advised to stick to

The Lenox School Committee is planning a special meeting next Tuesday to continue its lively discussion on whether to reduce compulsory masking and ease other pandemic-related restrictions.

This isn’t the first time Gov. Phil Murphy has been proven to be one of those ‘do as I say not as I do’ guys. I doubt it will be the last.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is up in arms after Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Monday that the FBI will partner with local law enforcement to respond to harassment and violence against school board officials and teachers across the country.

The Sartell-St. Stephen school district has announced their safe-learning plan for the upcoming school year.

Masking will be a key strategy in returning to school safely amid the continued presence of COVID-19 and its delta variant, said a pair of Duke University pediatrics professors who also stressed the importance of enforcing and adhering to mask policies. Dr. Danny Benjamin, chair of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development’s Pediatric Trials Network, compared enforcing mask-wearing in schools to giving a child medicine to treat strep throat. “It will do you no good ...