Shawnee Mission School District requires all students to wear masks in schools through Feb. 15

Shawnee Mission secondary students and staff will all be required to wear a mask as of Jan. 24. The board of education unanimously approved universal masking until Feb. 15, although it could be extended at the board's Feb. 14 meeting.
Shawnee Mission will require all students, staff and visitors to wear masks in all the district’s schools through at least Feb. 15.

The move approved by the board of education Monday night temporarily suspends the district’s COVID-19 mitigation plan for the current semester.

That plan made masking optional in middle and high schools for the second semester but also put in place thresholds to determine whether individual schools needed to reimpose mask rules.

Before Monday, all middle and high schools had already re-instituted mask rules due to the high level of spread among students.