Published by admin on Tue, 08/10/2021 - 4:59pm
The Unit 1 Board of Education was all for optional masks to start the school year. But an executive order by Gov. JB Pritzker has given them no option but to require students and teachers to wear masks when they show up Aug. 17 for the first day of school.
The executive order—issued Aug. 4 in response to a surge in COVID-19 cases across the state and nation—is not a recommendation but a requirement for all public and private pre-kindergarten to 12 schools.