The superintendent for Los Angeles Unified School District said late Tuesday that the district will maintain its outdoor mask rules, even as the county announced its outdoor mask mandate was lifted.
Alberto Carvalho, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, announced late Tuesday night that the district would not immediately relax its rules for outdoor masking, but he added that the decision would be revisited in the coming days.
“Los Angeles Unified will keep the current guidelines in place for the remainder of this week and will announce changes to our outdoor masking guidance as early as next week,” Carvalho said in a tweet.
Update on outdoor mask mandate. pic.twitter.com/3dBNEbYqhJ
— Alberto M. Carvalho (@LAUSDSup) February 16, 2022
Carvalho’s tweet came just as Los Angeles County officials announced that they would be lifting the city’s outdoor mask mandate but would keep it in place for indoor settings. The county had included outdoor settings at schools among the places the mandate would be lifted.
LIBERAL JURISDICTIONS LIFT MASK MANDATES — BUT NOT FOR SCHOOLS
California lifted the state mask mandate in all situations last week, effective Wednesday, but Los Angeles County officials declined to lift the city’s indoor mandate.
A number of governors in Democratic-controlled states announced mask mandates would be lifted in recent weeks, but only some states that eased mask rules included lifting mandates in schools.
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New Jersey, Connecticut, and Oregon were among those that lifted mandates for schools, while California and New York excluded schools.
