Dear Illini West Families:
As you may know, Governor Pritzker held a COVID-19 press conference yesterday where he issued new rules regarding indoor masking, educational employee vaccination, and testing requirements.
The new executive order requires all educational employees to begin a COVID-19 vaccine regimen on or before September 5th. It requires all educational employees to receive a COVID-19 vaccination or to submit to testing weekly (or more frequently if ordered by the local health department). It also states schools shall exclude school personnel who are not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 from the premises unless they comply with the testing requirements.
I am currently working to determine a large range of specifics related to the implementation of this executive order. Both the Illinois State Board of Education and the Illinois Department of Health have indicated they will be releasing guidance shortly. We will communicate internally with our staff on the specifics of how we will verify staff vaccination status and coordinate weekly testing as soon as the guidance becomes available.
The timeline to implement this order is extremely short. I ask for your patience as we work to better understand and address the new requirements.
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