{"id":"MS-005","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Mississippi","state":"MS","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Tate Reeves","authority":"Miss. Code Ann. 33-15-11(c)(1) and (4)","instrument":"Executive Order 1460","title":"Closing Mississippi public schools","dateIssued":"2020-03-19","effective":"2020-03-19","end":"2020-04-17 as issued; amended by EO 1476 (Apr. 22, 2020) to the end of the 2019-20 academic year","startDate":"2020-03-19","endDate":"2020-04-17","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["SCH"],"addressees":["public school districts"],"clause":"[All Mississippi public] schools shall be closed effective immediately through April 17, 2020. When public schools are closed in response to the COVID-19 emergency, each school district shall continue to operate with essential faculty and staff, whether working from [home or in the workplace]... Mississippi public schools need and shall be granted appropriate flexibility and waivers from compliance with mandatory testing and accountability for the 2019-2020 school year.","enforcement":"Directive to school districts; suspension of the 10-day limitation in Miss. Code Ann. 37-13-63(2)","functions":["WF workforce (schools closed)","IN in-person instruction","FS school meals"],"notes":"Signed March 19, 2020 (\u0027the 19th day\u0027 of March). Ballotpedia: the closure originally scheduled to end March 20 was extended to April 17.","sourceUrl":"https://www.sos.ms.gov/content/executiveorders/ExecutiveOrders/1460.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200926083346/https://www.sos.ms.gov/content/executiveorders/ExecutiveOrders/1460.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":265737,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"MS","url":"/library/MS-005","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/MS-005","citation":"Governor Tate Reeves, Executive Order 1460 (Mar. 19, 2020) (Ex. MS-005)","stateName":"Mississippi","related":["MS-003","MS-002","MS-006","MS-007","MS-008","MS-001","MS-009","MS-010","MS-011","MS-013","MS-012","MS-014"]}