State Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman Thursday issued a memo to school district superintendents and transportation directors ordering face covering on school buses.
The South Carolina Department of Education stopped enforcing the CDC rule for masks on school buses in early July when cases were trending down, but Thursday the agency acknowledged that with increasing levels of the Delta variant officials needed to lower the risk of virus transmission and keep schools open and operating as safely as possible.
For this reason, the South Carolina Department of Education will again enforce the CDC’s order requiring the use of face coverings by students and staff on state owned and operated school buses no later than Monday, August 30.
State-owned school buses will be stocked with an adequate supply of face coverings. If a student boards a bus without a face covering, bus drivers should offer the student a face covering. However, no student should be denied transportation for failing to adhere to the CDC Order.
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