'Our COVID numbers have significantly decreased,' AISD Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde said at a specially called school board meeting. 'To be exact .007% [of the school community tested positive] this past week.'
Christina Tapia teaches a hybrid class of third-graders at Boone Elementary School in South Austin in 2020.
As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to fall in Austin, the city's largest school district announced masks will be optional in schools starting next week. Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde said the school board met with the head of Austin Public Health and consulted new federal guidelines that say counties with low"community level" numbers don't need to institute"universal indoor masking."
"Our COVID numbers have significantly decreased," she said at a specially called school board meeting Wednesday."To be exact .007% [of the school community tested positive] this past week."
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