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The Leon County School District will allow asymptomatic children to stay in school. Those students will still have to wear a mask, though.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration has asked an appeals court to block challenges filed by five school boards against a Department of Health rule aimed at preventing students from being forced to wear masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Leon County school board is upholding a decision by superintendent Rocky Hanna to reinstitute a mandatory school mask policy. The policy survived an attempt by board members DeeDee Rasmussen and Alva Striplin to overturn it.
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Leon County Schools is now posting the number of people opting out of the district’s mask policy. The data has been added to the district's COVID-19 dashboard which also shows the number of quarantined staff and students at each school.
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The first day of school is coming in the middle of a difficult week for Leon County School Superintendent Rocky Hanna. He sat down with WFSU to talk about masks, a new school year and what parents should expect for the next few months.
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Leon County Schools will begin vaccinating employees 50 years and older this Saturday. This comes after Governor Ron DeSantis signed an order Tuesday allowing K-12 employees, law enforcement officers, and firefighters 50 years and older to be vaccinated.
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Leon County School employees 65 and older will have an opportunity to get vaccinated Saturday.
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Leon County Schools officially welcomed back about 15,000 students for in-person learning this morning.
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Leon County students will now go back to school on August 31st. The school board voted to push the date back a week following the deaths of two Fort Braden School employees from COVID-19.
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If the Re-Open Leon Schools Task Force determines in-person classes are no longer safe, Superintendent Rocky Hanna says he will shutter schools even if that means losing funding.