Joplin R-8 administrators to recommend dropping mask mandate for summer school

 

Joplin R-8 administrators will recommend dropping the mask mandate at the end of the regular school year.

The R-8 Board of Education will act on the recommendation when it meets 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Memorial Education Building.

If approved, there will be no mask mandate for summer school, which begins Wednesday, June 2.

The recommendation document noted the district had no COVID-19 cases among students or employees on May 18 and that numbers in the city of Joplin, Jasper County and Newton County "have held relatively flat for several weeks.