Kansas City area schools vary on COVID mask rules. Here’s what your district is doing
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COVID-19 safety in schools
For the new school year, as COVID-19 cases are surging and hospitals are turning away patients, Kansas City area districts are making decisions about safety.
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As COVID-19 continues to surge, and as children head back to classrooms this month, Kansas City area school districts have implemented varying mask requirements.
Many are following the mandates of their municipalities: Kansas City, Jackson County and North Kansas City have all reinstated mask requirements for public indoor spaces. Those are in effect at least through Aug. 28.
The Johnson County Board of Commissioners voted Aug. 5 to mandate masks for any school that has students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade, aiming to protect those not yet eligible for the vaccine. But most districts went further than that.
And the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas, approved a mask mandate for most residents over the age of 5. It applies to Kansas City, Kansas, and unincorporated parts of the county.
Both Clay and Platte counties have no orders requiring masks in public spaces.
A few holdouts are keeping masks optional, or are mandating them only for younger grades.
Here’s what the major districts in the immediate metro region are doing:
Missouri school districts with mask mandates
Center
Independence
Kearney (as of Aug. 15)
Liberty
North Kansas City
Park Hill
Platte County
Raytown
Missouri school districts without mandates
Belton
Oak Grove
Kansas school districts with mask mandates
Bonner Springs/Edwardsville
Piper
This story was originally published August 13, 2021 at 12:25 PM.
