{"id":1010102,"date":"2021-05-06T13:51:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T18:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1010102"},"modified":"2021-05-07T13:51:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T18:51:03","slug":"masks-optional-in-tisd-starting-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1010102","title":{"rendered":"Masks optional in TISD starting Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/05\/school-teacher-parents-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1010108\" \/>TYLER &#8212; Starting Monday, May 10, face coverings will be optional for all Tyler ISD students and staff while at school or on school property. TISD trustees approved the adjustment to the District\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Return to Learn\u00e2\u20ac\u009d health and safety protocols Thursday in a 6-0 vote.  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Over the last eight weeks, Tyler ISD has averaged only 4.2 cases (of COVID-19) among its more than 20,000 students and staff,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Superintendent Dr. Marty Crawford said in a prepared statement. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Also, with the declining numbers in our community and the many vaccination opportunities that our staff has had, Trustees agree it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s safe to lift the face-covering requirement.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  Go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tylerisd.org\/article\/455133\">here<\/a> for lots more on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Starting Monday, May 10, face coverings will be optional for all Tyler ISD students and staff while at school or on school property. TISD trustees approved the adjustment to the District\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Return to Learn\u00e2\u20ac\u009d health and safety protocols Thursday in a 6-0 vote. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Over the last eight weeks, Tyler ISD has averaged only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1010102\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Masks optional in TISD starting Monday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1010111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/05\/school-teacher-parents-1-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Masks optional in TISD starting Monday","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 20:42:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/05\/school-teacher-parents-1-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Masks optional in TISD starting Monday","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1010102"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010123,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010102\/revisions\/1010123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1010111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1010102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1010102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1010102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}