One of Georgia’s largest school districts will require masks for most of its students, at least for now, as rising COVID-19 infections continue to scramble school district plans across the state.
The 90,000-student Fulton County school district announced Thursday that students in all its schools except for those in the north Fulton city of Johns Creek will have to wear face coverings when the district starts school Monday. That represents almost 75,000 students in the district, which runs schools in Georgia’s most populous county except for those in the city of Atlanta
The district is making mask determinations each week based on COVID-19 infection rates in individual communities and determined that the number of infections required masks in all but Johns Creek.
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