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Newton, MA, caught with its pants down, starts enforcing its school vaccination requirements. I can't understand why they were "relaxed" in the first place! But better late than never.

Newton Public Schools have a lot of unvaccinated students, and the district is cracking down and reinstating requirements that were relaxed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The district’s central office recently sent out a message letting NPS families know that, during a meeting with the city’s Health and Human Services team, school administration learned that since 2020, 182 students were allowed to enroll in NPS without standard immunizations required by the state to attend public schools in Massachusetts.

“These matters came to our attention due to a series of cases of chicken pox, which were dealt with last week and brought us to review of our students and their immunization status,” the NPS message notes.

This is at a time when measles cases are popping up nationwide, and the NPS data shows 42 students who aren’t immunized for measles.

https://www.newtonbeacon.org/with-alarming-number-of-unvaccinated-students-nolin-reinstates-requirements-for-nps/

h/t @universalhub (whose post on this hasn't made it to Mastodon yet: https://www.universalhub.com/2025/after-chickenpox-outbreak-newton-officials-put-foot-down-incoming)

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