March 2, 2022:  As you may know, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) released guidance related to masking in schools to districts on Tuesday evening, March 1, 2022. After a review of the guidance documents which pertain to the masking change in schools, LCSD updates can be found in the newsletter.

March 1, 2022

On Sunday afternoon, Governor Hochul ended the universal mask mandate for schools in New York State effective Wednesday, March 2, 2022. While there has been ample evidence that the wearing of masks has had a positive effect on mitigating, if not preventing the spread of COVID in our schools during the early stages of the pandemic and during the recent surges caused by COVID variants, we believe that, by any measurable metric, we have progressed to the point where requiring everyone to wear a mask is no longer necessary to contain the spread of COVID.