{"id":"AR-080","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Arkansas","state":"AR","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Division of Elementary and Secondary Education, Arkansas Department of Education, with the Arkansas Department of Health","authority":"Ark. Code Ann. 20-7-110 (ADH quarantine and exclusion); ARP ESSER Safe Return to In-Person Instruction plan requirements","instrument":"2021-2022 COVID-19 Guidance for Schools (revised July 27, 2021)","title":"Statewide guidance for the 2021-22 school year: masks cannot be mandated under Act 1002; quarantine of unvaccinated, unmasked close contacts; screening; distancing; exclusion","dateIssued":"2021-07-27","effective":"2021-08 (school year)","end":"2021-22 school year","startDate":"2021-07-27","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2021Q3"],"types":["SCH","QUAR","MASK"],"addressees":["school districts, students, staff, families"],"clause":"Although masks or other face coverings can no longer be mandated in Arkansas public schools, as prohibited by Act 1002 of 2021, the CDC currently recommends the following... Fully-vaccinated students or staff do not need to quarantine if deemed close contacts, unless they have/develop symptoms.... Individuals exposed to a confirmed case of COVID-19 will not need to be quarantined if they have no symptoms and both the infected and exposed individual consistently and correctly were wearing a mask.... Districts should continue to screen individuals who enter facilities... ensuring individuals with symptoms of COVID-19, and those needing to be excluded, do not enter the facility.","enforcement":"Quarantine and exclusion under ADH authority; districts\u0027 Safe Return plans (federal ARP ESSER condition)","functions":["WF workforce (quarantined children of employees)","IN in-person instruction","EC child care","TR transport"],"notes":"After the Aug. 6, 2021 injunction against Act 1002, districts (Little Rock, Marion and others) adopted mask requirements; this guidance\u0027s masking-based quarantine exemption then governed. Ballotpedia links this document as \u0027Arkansas\u0027 statewide guidance for the 2021-2022 school year as of Aug. 6, 2021\u0027.","sourceUrl":"https://dese.ade.arkansas.gov/Files/2021-2022_Guidance_for_Schools_rv_20210727142444.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210810191154/https://dese.ade.arkansas.gov/Files/2021-2022_Guidance_for_Schools_rv_20210727142444.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":352337,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AR","url":"/library/AR-080","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AR-080","citation":"Division of Elementary and Secondary Education, Arkansas Department of Education, with the Arkansas Department of Health, 2021-2022 COVID-19 Guidance for Schools (revised July 27, 2021) (Ex. AR-080)","stateName":"Arkansas","related":["AR-073"]}