Cherry Creek Schools expands COVID-19 mask mandate to include seventh and eighth grades

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The Cherry Creek School District is expanding its COVID-19 disguise mandate to see 7th and 8th graders starting connected Monday.

Masks astatine Cherry Creek Schools were already required for each students nether the property of 12, and the policy, based connected practice with the Tri-County Health Department, required masks for each pre-kindergarten, simple and mediate schoolhouse students and each unit successful those buildings.

“This determination is besides based connected monitoring interior tracking information from the past 10 days,” said Superintendent Christopher Smith, successful a connection to territory families. “We person seen expanding COVID-19 cases among students and staff, peculiarly astatine the simple and mediate schoolhouse levels.”

Data is posted connected the district’s website. As of Friday, 86 students and 18 unit members person tested COVID affirmative territory wide.

“While we person not seen important dispersed successful schools, the information that COVID-19 cases are expanding successful the assemblage means we request to instrumentality stronger measures to support schools wherever determination are ample numbers of students not yet eligible to person the vaccine,” Smith said.

Masks are “strongly encouraged” for students and unit successful precocious schools, and the territory volition proceed to spouse with the Tri-County Health Department moving forward.

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