Georgetown County School Board Votes Against Mask Mandate

The Georgetown County School Board voted against imposing a mandatory mask mandate at their meeting last night. The vote was to continue the district’s current Covid-19 policy which recommends masks in schools but does not require them and comes after a federal judge ruled South Carolina schools could impose mandates. School board officials cited a decrease in cases over the past month in their ruling and said as of yesterday, 37 students tested positive and less than 1% of the student body is in quarantine which is down from over 2,000 a month ago.