Monday was the deadline for D.C. students to be up to date on their back-to-school vaccines, and the school district reported that almost 90% of 23,000 students got their shots on time.
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Despite the high success rate, about 2,300 students did not receive the required vaccinations, according to the D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education.
Fort the most part, those children will not end up being “temporarily excluded” from school for not complying by the Dec. 8 deadline. According to the state s

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