At a school board meeting Tuesday, the City Schools of Decatur board discussed requiring the COVID-19 vaccine for staff and eligible students. Board members agreed on the proposal presented by Superintendent Maggie Fehrman.
“There’s no law that prevents us from requiring staff to be vaccinated,” Fehrman said after consulting with the district’s legal counsel. “However, if we do want to, as a district, say, ‘Yes, we will require vaccines,’… then we have to also have to have a process in place for staff who choose or say they don’t want to get vaccinated.”
Fehrman said the district would need to allow for accommodation provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) considerations. The change doesn’t require a board vote, so the school system says it will begin outlining the accommodations and process for applying them to staff soon.
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