An Illinois school superintendent emailed parents and students Sunday announcing that many of the school’s COVID-19 policies will no longer be implemented.
Tom Mahoney, superintendent of the Oregon Community Unit School District in Illinois, wrote that masks would only be recommended and quarantining would not be required if staff and students were asymptomatic.
The email, according to WREX, came as a result of a restraining order placed on Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s mandate that students wear masks in the classroom and school employees be vaccinated.
The district will also no longer require unvaccinated staff to be regularly tested. However, Mahoney’s email reportedly did state that students and staff who test positive will still be required to quarantine and masks will be required on buses given Centers for Disease Control and Prevention public transportation requirements.
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On Friday, Sangamon County Circuit Judge Raylene Grischow ruled that Pritzker’s mandate overstepped his legal authority.
“Statutory rights have attempted to be bypassed through the issuance of executive orders and emergency rules,” Grischow wrote in the 29-page ruling. “This type of evil is exactly what the law was intended to constrain.”
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The Oregon Community Unit School District was not included in the original lawsuit that brought Grischow’s ruling.
Mahoney acknowledged that if the ruling is overturned and Pritzker’s mandate is reimplemented, the COVID-19 polices will once again take effect, according to WREX.
