Florida school district with thousands in isolation or quarantine calls emergency board meeting
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Students return on the first day of school at Hillsborough High School in Tampa, Florida, on August 10, 2021.
About a week after classes started, one Tampa-area school system has called an emergency meeting to discuss Covid-19 mitigation measures after about 6,000 people were told to isolate or quarantine.
Officials with Hillsborough County Public Schools said Monday morning that 5,599 students and 316 employees are in isolation or quarantine.
The school board said in a statement Monday it has called for an emergency meeting Wednesday afternoon to discuss the impact of Covid-19 and mitigation strategies including "mandatory face coverings for all students and staff.
Classes in the district, which is the seventh largest in the country and has 208,000 students, began last Tuesday.
Gov. Ron DeSantis' office has said the state could move to withhold salaries of officials who impose mask mandates in schools. The governor has said parents should decide whether their children wear masks.
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About a week after classes started, one Tampa-area school system has called an emergency meeting to discuss Covid-19 mitigation measures after about 6,000 people were told to isolate or quarantine.
The school board said in a statement Monday it has called for an emergency meeting Wednesday afternoon to discuss the impact of Covid-19 and mitigation strategies including "mandatory face coverings for all students and staff.
Classes in the district, which is the seventh largest in the country and has 208,000 students, began last Tuesday.
Gov. Ron DeSantis' office has said the state could move to withhold salaries of officials who impose mask mandates in schools.
Things just keep getting worse and worse . . .