District officials and teacher union leaders on Saturday affirmed that masking requirements will remain in place in Chicago Public Schools classrooms despite a downstate judge’s ruling halting mask mandates.
CPS leaders asserted that the temporary restraining order issued Friday night by Sangamon County Circuit Judge Raylene Grischow “does not prohibit CPS from exercising its authority to continue its COVID-19 mitigation policies and procedures,” including the masking edict and vaccination and testing requirements for staffers.
