Students in D.C. public and charter schools will have more time to comply with vaccination requirements this school year, the city’s deputy mayor for education said Friday. Students will need to be vaccinated against the coronavirus by Jan. 3.
Officials previously said schools should not allow students to come to class for more than 20 days without their routine vaccinations, against illnesses including measles and polio, or their coronavirus shots. But because schools across the district have different start dates — D.C. public schools reopen Monday and many charter school students have already returned — officials designed a timeline that would put everyone on the same page.
The city’s coronavirus vaccine mandate, which applies to students 12 and older, falls under a different timeline. Students who are not fully vaccinated against the virus will by notified Nov. 21 and will need to comply by Jan. 3. But the 70-day window posed some challenges, particularly around tracking vaccinations, Paul Kihn, deputy mayor for education, acknowledged in a letter to school leaders. He wrote that he hopes the new Jan. 3 exclusion date will provide more time for schools to prepare and students to get caught up.The District’s coronavirus vaccine requirement is rare at this point in the pandemic when many workplaces, universities and school districts have moved away from such mandates. This week a D.C.
There is also concern the mandate will have a disproportionate effect on children of color. Data published by the city show 53 percent of Black 12- to 15-year-olds are vaccinated against the coronavirus, compared to 87 percent of White students in that age group. Those numbers are lower than what the city reported last week.“It doesn’t have to happen,” Bowser said during an interview Thursday.
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