The district might require them at individual schools, and it might bring back a districtwide mandate depending on COVID-19 metrics, absences and what scientists say
San Diego Unified will not require masks districtwide when the school year starts on Aug. 29, signaling a retreat from COVID-19 rules the district established a month ago.
The school system will no longer require masks across all schools whenever the county has high community levels of COVID-19 activity, as defined by federal guidelines. San Diego Unified had establishedThe COVID surge has since calmed down, as San Diego County exited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s highest risk level on Thursday.
Now instead of a districtwide mandate, masks may be required at individual San Diego Unified schools if a school gets at least three COVID outbreaks within a 14-day period, and if more than 5 percent of the school’s students and staff are infected at that time, the district said. If conditions at a school trigger a mandate, masks will be required there for at least 14 days.
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