The Sherman Independent School District is dropping its face mask mandate starting Tuesday, September 21.
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School board members meeting Monday evening voted to reverse the policy that had been in place for nearly a month in the wake of elevated COVID-19 cases among students and staffers.
"In order to keep our schools open and our students learning in person, we must begin to address this spike in cases before the situation becomes unmanageable," Superintendent David Hicks wrote in a letter to parents on August 23.
According to the district's own COVID dashboard, there are currently 199 students with coronavirus at all schools out of a total enrollment of more than 7,500.
Sherman, with a population of 44,000, is located just north of Dallas, just 16 miles south of the Texas/Oklahoma state line.
On September 10, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against the Sherman ISD for defying Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's executive order prohibiting face mask or vaccine mandates at public schools in the state.
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