County schools to make decision regarding masks

Freestone county schools will decide soon whether students will wear face masks the rest of the school year, after the state mandate requiring them to be worn was rescinded last week.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced at a Tuesday press conference that the executive order he issued last year would no longer come from the state level, pitching the responsibility for that decision to local businesses and school boards.

The Teague and Fairfield board of trustees both hold their meetings later in the month, and schools are expected to release a decision at that time.

The new executive order said that public schools must follow guidance issued by the Texas Education Agency, which came the next day.

The TEA statement said that the fine print in the governor’s executive order allows them to keep the authority to “implement operational requirements for public schools,” and that “a public school’s current practices on masks may continue unchanged.”

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