Anoka-Hennepin schools will take new building-by-building approach to masking policy

Anoka-Hennepin students must now mask up if their school logs an unusually high rate of absences and the county they live in registers more than 50 infections per 10,000 residents. That's the upshot of a new policy the school board approved 5-1 Monday, which sets building-level criteria for mask mandates as opposed to the district-wide approach decision-makers have taken since the start of the academic year.