PEORIA, Ill. – It might be the sort of reprieve parents in Peoria Public Schools wanted after recently threatening their own lawsuit over the district’s universal mask mandate.
District 150 Superintendent Sharon Desmoulin-Kherat says starting Monday, masking will now be “recommended” for all students and staff in the district.
That’s a shift from the “universal” policy that had been in place.
“We welcome the new metrics and guidance regarding masking that we received Friday from the CDC, ISBE, the Governor’s office and our local health department for a safe shift from universal masking to recommended masking,” Kherat said in a statement.
While a number of area school districts were a part of the lawsuit recently filed against the state about masking, PPS was not, with universal masking having been written in to their “return to school” plan last year.
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