Chicago Public Schools will continue to direct students who contract COVID-19 and unvaccinated students exposed to the virus to temporarily stay home, leaders said Wednesday as a group of parents called on the district to end its contact tracing and quarantine policies.
“When children are exposed, they have to quarantine for five days. When they come back, from day six to 10, they have to wear their masks‚” CPS CEO Pedro Martinez said at Wednesday’s monthly Chicago Board of Education meeting.
“Those procedures will continue to be in place, and I just want to thank our families and our staff for continuing to respect each other as well as continuing to enforce those procedures.”
