{"id":1022,"date":"2022-02-25T22:37:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T22:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/nyc-chancellor-david-banks-announces-end-of-outdoor-mask-mandate-on-school-grounds\/"},"modified":"2022-02-25T22:37:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T22:37:53","slug":"nyc-chancellor-david-banks-announces-end-of-outdoor-mask-mandate-on-school-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/?p=1022","title":{"rendered":"NYC CHANCELLOR DAVID BANKS ANNOUNCES END OF OUTDOOR MASK MANDATE ON SCHOOL GROUNDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Content Distributed by <a href=\"https:\/\/nycnewswire.com\/\">NYC Newswire<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Schools Chancellor David C. Banks<\/strong> recently announced that beginning Monday, February 28, 2022 masks or face coverings will no longer be required when outside on school grounds. Masks will still be required for all students, staff and visitors inside schools.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThroughout the pandemic, our schools have remained some of the safest spaces for our students and staff, thanks to our gold standard health and safety protocol,\u201d\u00a0<strong>said Schools Chancellor David Banks<\/strong>. \u201cI am so pleased that we are able to make this exciting announcement and safely allow students and staff to remove their masks when outdoors at NYC public schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Banks added, &#8220;the safety of our students and staff continues to be the top priority of the Department of Education, and this decision follows the success of our \u2018Stay Safe, Stay Open\u2019 plan, which led to the decrease of cases by 99 percent and brought the in-school positivity rate under one percent \u2013 far below the citywide average.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the press release, at this time, in-door masking will continue. The DOE will continue to work in close partnership with the Department of Health &amp; Mental Hygiene and Health + Hospitals to monitor case rates, vaccination rates and other data points.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Department of Education continues to maintain stringent COVID protocols, including increased ventilation, distancing when possible, a daily screener to make sure those with symptoms do not come to school and the distribution of test kits\u2014all designed to identify persons with COVID rapidly for isolation and reduce possible transmission of COVID in schools.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/nycteachers.com\/breaking-news\/\"><strong>NYC Education News<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content Distributed by NYC Newswire Schools Chancellor David C. Banks recently announced that beginning Monday, February 28, 2022 masks or face coverings will no longer be required when outside on school grounds. Masks will still be required for all students, staff and visitors inside schools. \u201cThroughout the pandemic, our schools have remained some of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}