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February 21, 2021 - 6:00 PM The B.C. Teachers’ Federation is calling on the Ministry of Education to ramp up COVID-19 safety and testing protocols, in the wake of new variant cases being discovered within Fraser Valley schools. In a statement released Feb. 21, BCTF President Teri Mooring said school districts need the authority to go above and beyond the established health and safety guidelines when necessary. “When there is a high rate of COVID-19 within a community, a school district should be able to make regional or site-based enhancements to the safety protocols,” reads the statement. “Those enhancements include mandating masks everywhere in specific schools, including at elementary schools, and making changes to schedules or online learning access to reduce density and increase physical distancing.”