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Responses by state

As students returned to school for the 2021-2022 school year, states set a variety of policies on education and the COVID-19 pandemic, including how schools should open to in-person instruction and whether students and staff would exist required to vesture masks. By the end of the 2020-2021 school yr, near 66% of students nationwide were in states that left closure decisions to schools or districts, 33% were in states with land-ordered in-person instruction, and 1% were in states with state-ordered regional school closures.^{[ane] [2]} All 50 states airtight schools to in-person instruction at some betoken during the 2019-2020 schoolhouse year in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

This article summarizes responses to the coronavirus in Louisiana schools in the academic years ending in 2020, 2021, and 2022. You volition find:

• A timeline of events by school year
• A nationwide summary of school mask and vaccine requirements in the 2021-2022 school yr
• A summary of schoolhouse reopening statuses in the 2020-2021 academic twelvemonth
• A summary of school reopening statuses in the 2019-2020 academic year

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Timeline by school year

Below is a listing of major events involving schools in Louisiana during the coronavirus pandemic between 2019 and 2022, including schoolhouse closings and openings, mask requirements, and the release of statewide operating guidance. Know of something we missed? Click hither to electronic mail u.s. and permit u.s. know.

2021-2022 school year

• February. 16, 2022: Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) allowed the statewide schoolhouse mask requirement to expire.^[iii]
• December. 14, 2021: Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) appear that the Louisiana Department of Wellness would add the coronavirus vaccine to the list of required vaccinations for students 16 and older, overriding the Louisiana House of Representatives Health and Welfare Committee'southward Dec. six vote confronting the policy. He said parents could submit a written objection to opt-out.^[4]
• December. vi, 2021: The Louisiana House of Representatives Health and Welfare Commission voted 13-2 to reject a Louisiana Department of Health proposal that would take added the coronavirus vaccine to the list of required vaccinations for some students.^[5]
• Oct. 26, 2021: Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) lifted the statewide indoor mask requirement for vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals in all settings except for K-12 schools. School districts have the option not to require masks if they follow CDC quarantine guidelines.^[half-dozen]
• Sept. 9, 2021: At the showtime of the school year, Burbio, a school data aggregator, reported iv in-person schooling disruptions in Louisiana.^{[7] [8]}

2020-2021 schoolhouse year

• June 29, 2021: At the end of the school year, Burbio reported most schools were in-person in Louisiana .^{[9] [ten]}
• Sept. 10, 2020: At the offset of the school twelvemonth, Burbio reported about one-half of schools were in-person in Louisiana .^{[11] [12]}
• July 14, 2020: The Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted unanimously to approve reopening guidelines proposed by Superintendent Cade Brumley. The guidelines included a requirement for all adults and students in grades 3 through 12 to wear face coverings.^[13]

2019-2020 school year

• April thirteen, 2020: Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) closed schools for the remainder of the academic year. Prior to the annunciation, schools were airtight through April 30.^[14]
• Apr two, 2020: Edwards announced that the statewide school closure, scheduled to finish Apr 13, was extended through Apr 30.^[15]
• March 13, 2020: Edwards signed an executive order closing all K-12 schools statewide until April thirteen.^[16]

Mask and vaccine requirements in the 2021-2022 school yr

Mask requirements in schools

Run into besides: School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the 2021-2022 academic year

Equally of May xix, 2022, masks were required in schools past 1 state (Hawaii). Forty-ii states left mask requirements in schools upward to local government. Seven states banned school mask requirements.

The table beneath shows school mask requirement laws and orders in states with school mask requirements or schoolhouse mask requirement bans in place.

Mask requirement orders
Country	Ban or requirement?	Blazon of order	Date lifted or altered
Arizona	Ban	Legislative activeness	N/A
Arkansas	Ban	Legislative action	Sept. 30, 2021 - Suspended by court activity
California	Requirement	California Department of Public Health social club	March 12, 2022 - Lifted past executive activeness
Connecticut	Requirement	Executive order	Feb. 28, 2022 - Lifted past executive action
Delaware	Requirement	Executive order	March one, 2022 - Lifted by executive action
Florida	Ban	Executive order	Northward/A[17]
Georgia	Ban	Legislative action	N/A
Hawaii	Requirement	Executive order	N/A
Illinois	Requirement	Illinois Section of Public Health order	February. 4, 2022 - Suspended past court action[eighteen]
Iowa	Ban	Legislative action	May xvi, 2022 - Reinstated by courtroom activeness[19]
Kentucky	Requirement	Kentucky Board of Education order	Sept. ix, 2021 - Suspended past country law
Louisiana	Requirement	Executive order	February. xvi, 2022 - Lifted by executive activeness[20]
Maryland	Requirement	Maryland State Board of Instruction order	March ane, 2022 - Lifted by executive activity[21]
Massachusetts	Requirement	Massachusetts Department of Unproblematic and Secondary Education order	Feb. 28, 2022 - Lifted by executive activeness[22]
Nevada	Requirement	Executive society	Feb. x, 2022 - Lifted past executive action
New Jersey	Requirement	Executive guild	March vii, 2022 - Lifted past executive activity
New Mexico	Requirement	New Mexico Public Pedagogy Department order	Feb. 17, 2022 - Lifted by executive activeness
New York	Requirement	Executive order	March iii, 2022 - Lifted past executive action
Oklahoma	Ban	Executive order	N/A
Oregon	Requirement	Oregon Health Authority and Department of Education order	March 12, 2022 - Lifted past executive action
Pennsylvania	Requirement	Pennsylvania Section of Wellness order	Dec. 10, 2021 - Suspended by courtroom action
Rhode Isle	Requirement	Executive order	March iv, 2022 - Lifted by executive action
South Carolina	Ban	Legislative action	Sept. 28, 2021 - Temporarily suspended by court action
Tennessee	Ban	Executive order	Dec. 10, 2021 - Suspended by court action
Texas	Ban	Executive order	Northward/A[23]
Utah	Ban	Legislative activeness	N/A
Virginia	Ban	Legislative action	N/A
Washington	Requirement	Washington State Department of Public Wellness order	March 12, 2022 - Lifted by executive action

School mask requirements over time

School mask bans over fourth dimension

Teacher and schoolhouse employee vaccine requirements

Meet besides: School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the 2021-2022 academic twelvemonth

Equally of February seven, 2022, seven states had issued a statewide requirement for Thou-12 teachers and staff to exist vaccinated against the coronavirus or receive regular coronavirus testing. The table beneath shows teacher and staff vaccine requirement laws and orders in states with teacher and staff vaccine requirements in place.

Vaccine requirement orders
State	Testing instead of vaccination allowed?	Type of order	Date effective
California	Yes	California Department of Public Health society	October. 15, 2021
Connecticut	No	Executive lodge	Sept. 27, 2021
Delaware	Yes	Executive lodge	Nov. 1, 2021
Illinois	Yes	Executive order	Issued: Sept. 19, 2021 Suspended by court action on Feb. iv, 2022
New Jersey	Yes	Executive order	October. 18, 2021
New York	Yes	Executive order	Sept. xix, 2021
Oregon	No	Executive guild	Oct. xviii, 2021
Washington	No	Executive order	Oct. eighteen, 2021

Student vaccine requirements

Come across also: School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the 2021-2022 bookish year

On Oct. 1, 2021, California became the first state to announce a vaccine requirement for eligible students. Louisiana besides announced a vaccine requirement for eligible students on Dec. 14.

School reopenings and closures (2020-2021 bookish year)

See too: School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-xix) pandemic during the 2020-2021 academic yr

Initial schoolhouse yr operating plan

Run into also: Documenting America'due south Path to Recovery: July 16, 2020

Louisiana released an initial operating program for the 2020-2021 school year on July fourteen, 2020. An analysis of this plan appeared in our Documenting America'southward Path to Recovery newsletter on July 16. The sections below include an assay of the plan, the details of the programme, and reactions from officials to the plan.

On July 14, the Louisiana State Board of Uncomplicated and Secondary Teaching unanimously canonical Superintendent Cade Brumley's proposed reopening guidelines. Brumley said that the guidelines were "minimum wellness and safe standards for every school in the state," while allowing local districts to create their own specific plans.

On March 13, Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) issued an executive order endmost K-12 schools until April 13. On April 2, Edwards extended the closure through April 30. On April thirteen, Edwards made the closure effective for the remainder of the school year.

Louisiana does not take a statewide date for public schools to reopen. According to EdWeek, public schools in Louisiana traditionally offset the school year in early on August, with the exact start date varying by district.

Context

Louisiana has a divided government. The governor is a Democrat, and Republicans hold majorities in both chambers of the state legislature. The state has had a divided authorities since 2016.

The following tables show public education statistics in Louisiana, including a rank comparing it to the other 49 states. Rank one is the highest number of each figure, rank l is the everyman. All information comes from the Common Core of Data provided by the National Center for Didactics Statistics.

Louisiana schoolhouse metrics
Category	Effigy	Rank
Per pupil spending (16-17)	$12,542	31
Number of students (xviii-19)	711,235	25
Number of teachers (Fall 2016)	48,408	23
Number of public schools (18-19)	1,384	26
Student:instructor ratio (eighteen-nineteen)	18.3	vii
Percent qualifying for costless/reduced lunch (16-17)	63.0%	five

Louisiana school revenue
Category	Figure	Rank
Full revenue	$viii,927,289,000	24
Federal acquirement percent	xiv.7%	three
State acquirement percent	43.4%	34
Local revenue percent	41.ix%	25

Details

District reopening plans
Under the guidelines, school districts are responsible for creating their own reopening plans in accordance with the guidelines. Brumley said each commune must submit its plan to the state for approval, but did non say whether the plans had to be posted publicly.

In-person, hybrid, and online learning
Under the guidelines, school districts must decide whether students will learn face-to-face up, remotely, or using a hybrid model. Individual students may be considered for remote or hybrid learning based on academic, social, emotional, familial, or medical needs.

Mask requirements
The guidelines state that adults and students in grades 3 through 12 must vesture face coverings to the greatest extent possible.

In-person wellness recommendations and requirements
The guidelines place a limit on the number of individuals who can gather in a unmarried room or outdoors at ane time depending on the country's reopening phase. During Stage One, 10 individuals can see at ane fourth dimension. That limit expands to 25 during Phase Ii and l during Phase 3.

In a presentation on the guidelines, Brumley laid out how schools would reply to positive cases. If a school becomes enlightened of a presumptive example, the private in question should not attend school until adamant to be non-infectious past their doctor. School superintendents will exist given authority, in consultation with the Office of Public Wellness, to determine whether a school must close if it becomes a coronavirus hotspot. Brumley said that ane positive case did not mandate the closure of a classroom or school.

Transportation and bussing requirements and restrictions
As with meeting size limits, the guidelines determine jitney capacity past the state's reopening stage. During Phase I, buses may operate at 25% capacity. That capacity expands to l% during Phase Two and 75% during Phase Three.

Map of school closures

The map beneath shows the condition of school reopenings and closures at the cease of the 2020-2021 academic twelvemonth.

As of July viii, 2021, the status of school closures and reopenings was as follows:

• Two states (Delaware, Hawaii) and Washington, D.C. had state-ordered regional school closures, required closures for certain grade levels, or allowed hybrid education only.
  • 2019-20 enrollment: 410,896 students (0.81% of students nationwide)
• 13 states had state-ordered in-person educational activity.
  • 2019-twenty enrollment: 15,697,460 students (30.96% of students nationwide)
• I land (Arizona) had state-ordered in-person instruction for sure grades.
  • 2019-twenty enrollment: ane,152,586 students (2.27% of students nationwide)
• Thirty-four states left decisions to schools or districts.
  • 2019-20 enrollment: 33,449,499 students (65.96% of students nationwide)

School reopenings and closures (2019-2020 academic year)

See also: Schoolhouse responses to the coronavirus (COVID-nineteen) pandemic during the 2019-2020 academic year

The map below shows the status of schoolhouse reopenings and closures at the end of the 2019-2020 academic twelvemonth.

• States closed to in-person instruction for the residue of the 2019-2020 school yr: 48
• Number of public school students in states closed to in-person instruction for the remainder of the 2019-2020 schoolhouse year: 50,261,464

The nautical chart below shows the kickoff date schools in a state were closed to in-person instruction during the 2019-2020 academic year, divided by the political party of the governor.

School responses by land

To read virtually school responses to the coronavirus pandemic in others states, click one of the following links below:

• Alabama
• Alaska
• Arizona
• Arkansas
• California
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• Delaware
• Florida
• Georgia
• Hawaii
• Idaho
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Montana
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• New York
• North Carolina
• North Dakota
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• South Carolina
• Southward Dakota
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Utah
• Vermont
• Virginia
• Washington
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming

General resources

The chart below shows coronavirus statistics from countries across the world. The information is provided by Real Clear Politics.

Click the links below to explore official resource related to the coronavirus outbreak.

• Centers for Disease Command and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• National Institutes of Wellness, U.Due south. Department of Health & Human Services
• Occupational Safety and Wellness Administration, U.S. Department of Labor
• U.South. Department of Education
• Earth Health System
• Trends in Number of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in the US Reported to CDC, by State/Territory
• Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations, Our World in Data (Number of vaccines administered)
• Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker, New York Times (Progress of vaccine trials)

See too

• Documenting America'south Path to Recovery
• School responses to the coronavirus pandemic by country (2021-2022 academic yr)
• Schoolhouse responses to the coronavirus pandemic by state (2020-2021 academic year)
• Louisiana'southward responses to the coronavirus pandemic
• COVID-xix vaccine distribution past state
• Travel restrictions by state
• Federal government responses to the coronavirus pandemic

Footnotes

1. ↑ National Centre for Education Statistics, "Number of operating public schools and districts, pupil membership, teachers, and pupil/teacher ratio, past state or jurisdiction: School year 2019–xx," accessed September 10, 2021
2. ↑ EducationWeek, "Map: Where Were Schools Required to Exist Open for the 2020-21 Schoolhouse Year?" June 14, 2021
3. ↑ Louisiana Role of the Governor, "Gov. Edwards Extends COVID Public Wellness Emergency Order, Without Required Mitigation Measures," February 16, 2022
4. ↑ Louisiana Office of the Governor, "Gov. Edwards Rejects House Committee Activeness on COVID-nineteen Vaccine, Volition Add It to Louisiana's School Immunization Schedule," December fourteen, 2021
5. ↑ Ruston Daily Leader, "House rejects school vaccine requirement," December viii, 2021
6. ↑ Louisiana Function of the Governor, "Gov. Edwards Lifts Louisiana'south Mask Mandate Statewide, Except for Thou-12 Schools," October 26, 2021
7. ↑ To read more than well-nigh Burbio's school disruption tracking, click here
8. ↑ Burbio, "Burbio's K-12 School Opening Tracker," accessed August 27, 2021
9. ↑ Burbio rated Louisiana's in-person index at 89.seven. To read more than nearly Burbio'southward school opening tracker, click hither. To read more than about Burbio's methodology, click here.
10. ↑ Burbio, "Burbio's Thou-12 School Opening Tracker," accessed Oct. half dozen, 2021
11. ↑ Burbio rated Louisiana's in-person index between forty-60. To read more than almost Burbio's school opening tracker, click here. To read more near Burbio's methodology, click here.
12. ↑ Burbio, "Burbio's K-12 School Opening Tracker," accessed Oct. 6, 2021
13. ↑ The Abet, " Reopening rules of Louisiana public schools: BESE votes in face up mask, social distancing policies," July 15, 2020
14. ↑ The Times-Picayune, "Louisiana schools to remain closed for twelvemonth among coronavirus; some continuing remote learning," April 13, 2020
15. ↑ The Lens, "Governor says Louisiana schools shuttered through April 30," April two, 2020
16. ↑ Office of the Louisiana Governor, "Gov. Edwards Signs Proclamation Aimed to Slow the Spread of COVID-19 in Louisiana," March 13, 2020
17. ↑ On Sept. 2, 2021 the ban was temporarily suspended by courtroom activity. An appeals courtroom upheld the ban on Sept. x.
18. ↑ Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) ended the statewide school mask requirement on February. 28, 2022.
19. ↑ On Sept. 13, 2021 the ban was temporarily suspended by court action for all schools. On Jan. 25, 2022, the ban was partially reinstated.
20. ↑ Oct. 26, 2021 - School districts could be exempt from the school mask requirement if they followed CDC quarantine guidance
21. ↑ December. 7, 2021 - School districts could be exempt from the school mask requirement if they met one of the 3 following criteria: i) the canton vaccination charge per unit was 80% or higher, 2) 80% of school staff and students were vaccinated, or 3) COVID-19 transmission in the canton was considered moderate or depression for xiv straight days.
22. ↑ October. ane - Schools could become exempt from the school mask requirement when at least 80% of students were vaccinated
23. ↑ On Nov. 10, 2021 the ban was suspended by courtroom action. An appeals courtroom upheld the ban on Dec. 1.

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