Wyandotte County schools brace for a potential measles outbreak: ‘It would be a nightmare’

School nurse Jennifer Comer vividly remembers the number of students she had to exclude from Clark Middle School in Bonner Springs on a single day in 2013: 289.

Why? They weren’t up to date on their state-required immunizations.

In the past, the Bonner Springs-Edwardsville School District in Wyandotte County technically required vaccines. But if families flouted the rules, their kids could still go to school…

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