The Orleans Parish School Board has shortened its list of superintendent candidates from 15 to seven, after two days of back-to-back interviews last week.
Mask use inside New Orleans’ public schools may shift from mandatory to optional in just a few weeks if community spread remains low, the district said in a statement Thursday.
Due to hospitalization rates that continue to climb and overwhelm the healthcare system, the indoor mask mandate is back in place for New Orleans starting Wednesday, according to officials.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said he will not reinstitute a statewide mask mandate amid the current COVID-19 omicron variant surge, but he is looking to local school districts to require masks for K-12 school children.