{"id":"MD-093","kind":"order","level":"sector-regulator","jurisdiction":"Maryland","state":"MD","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Maryland Department of Health and Maryland State Department of Education","authority":"Guidance (not an order)","instrument":"K-12 School and Childcare COVID-19 Guidance (Revised July 23, 2021)","title":"K-12 School and Childcare COVID-19 Guidance (Revised July 23, 2021)","dateIssued":"2021-07-23","effective":"2021-07-23","end":"Superseded by later revisions (2021-22)","startDate":"2021-07-23","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2021Q3"],"types":["SCH","MASK","QUAR"],"addressees":["local school systems, nonpublic schools and child care programs"],"clause":"Each local school system, nonpublic school, and child care program may set their own policies and procedures for their schools, students/children, teachers and staff. However, MDH/MSDE strongly recommend that these entities follow the recommendations in this notice... A. Masks and Face Coverings. MDH/MSDE strongly recommend, but do not require, that all individuals who are not fully vaccinated continue to wear face coverings in all indoor settings outside [of their home]... Schools and child care programs should be aware that the federal order that face masks be worn by all people while on public [transportation conveyances, including school buses, is still in effect]... F. Contact Tracing in Combination with Isolation and Quarantine... [close] contacts should quarantine","enforcement":"Guidance; the federal transit order it recites is binding under 42 U.S.C. 264","functions":["IN instruction","EC child care","TR school buses","WF quarantine of exposed children and parents"],"notes":"Documents that, on July 23, 2021, Maryland left school masking to local systems (which then imposed it district by district in August 2021) and that the federal school-bus mask order remained binding;","sourceUrl":"http://marylandpublicschools.org/newsroom/Documents/COVID/MDH-MSDE-SchoolChildcareGuidance0723.pdf","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20210817183346/http://marylandpublicschools.org/newsroom/Documents/COVID/MDH-MSDE-SchoolChildcareGuidance0723.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":483968,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"MD","url":"/library/MD-093","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/MD-093","citation":"Maryland Department of Health and Maryland State Department of Education, K-12 School and Childcare COVID-19 Guidance (Revised July 23, 2021) (Ex. MD-093)","stateName":"Maryland","related":["MD-094"]}