A Massachusetts district will forbid all students without required vaccinations from attending its schools in the 2025-26 academic year, the local CBS affiliate reports.
Newton Public Schools sent a memo to its school committee detailing the move after experiencing an outbreak of chickenpox.
“A meeting with Newton Health and Human Services and the city’s nursing division also revealed 182 students have been attending school without the proper immunizations since the COVID-19 pandemic,” CBS noted.
This number is almost 1.6% of the total enrollment of 11,494 students in the 2024-25 school year.
