No more than 30 cases of head lice in the Fall River Public Schools district have been detected this past school year. Nonetheless, at the Monday, June 9 meeting of the Fall River School Committee, board members were divided over best practices for supporting students found to have lice, and how to proceed with an official policy regarding head lice management now put in place. 

Mary Gustave, the district’s director of nursing, explained the basic procedures in use since November 2023 for how school nursing staff has been supporting students who are found to have an active infestation of head lice. 

By discussion’s end, the committee voted unanimously to adopt the procedure that the school has been operating under as an official policy, reflective of national guidelines.

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