About 6,000 MCPS employees have not yet informed the school system about their vaccination status and another 600 have reported they are unvaccinated.

Maryland’s largest school system tightened coronavirus vaccine requirements for its 24,000 employees, deciding on Thursday to fully mandate the shots rather than allow the option of weekly testing.

The move in suburban Montgomery County could have a far-reaching effect: About 6,000 employees have not yet informed the school system about their vaccination status and another 600 have reported they are unvaccinated.

School board members said the aim was to bolster conditions that support in-person instruction. The school system has quarantined nearly 1,700 students in its first eight school days.

“The pandemic has recently grown worse with the spread of the delta variant,” Brenda Wolff, the school board’s president, said before the panel voted unanimously to approve the measure. “We believe that vaccines provide, not just protection for the individual but are essential to community safety.”..

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