GREEN BAY (NBC 26) — Masks will become optional at the Green Bay Area Public School District effective February 28.
The School Board to approve the policy shift Monday night.
Masks will still be required on buses, under a federal requirement.
Previously, the District's mask mandate was to end when the 7-day average of new COVID-19 cases in Brown County was at or below 100 per 100,000 population over seven consecutive days.
That metric on Monday was 211, and has been falling since reaching a peak of 2,553 on January 19.
The Board of Education updated its quarantine policies in January, which ended quarantines for vaccinated students and staff with no symptoms, and reduced quarantines for unvaccinated students and staff with no symptoms from 20 days to 10 days.
"I think education would be benefited greatly by especially losing the masks," said Eric Young, Green Bay. "I think kids need to be in school and I think their COVID learning protocol has a lot of holes in it right now that really need to be looked at."
Young has two kids in GBAPS. He said COVID hit his household in December, and felt there wasn't a good at-home learning plan while his kids waited for COVID test results.
The district's COVID dashboard shows 259 students and 13 staff members are currently in quarantine or isolation as of Monday night, down significantly from a few months ago.
NBC 26 reached out to Board of Education president Eric Vanden Heuvel and didn't receive a response.
