{"id":"VT-094","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Vermont","state":"VT","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Secretary of Education French and Commissioner of Health Levine","authority":"Advisory; implemented by school boards under 16 V.S.A. § 563 (VT-072)","instrument":"COVID-19 Advisory Memorandum, UPDATED: COVID-19 Prevention Measures for Fall 2021 (September 28, 2021 version)","title":"Universal indoor masking in schools should be required until November 1, 2021; masks for students under 12; federal bus mask rule","dateIssued":"2021-09-28","effective":"2021-09-28","end":"Updated Oct. 26, 2021 (VT-073)","startDate":"2021-09-28","endDate":"2021-10-26","quarters":["2021Q3"],"types":["SCH","MASK","QUAR"],"addressees":["superintendents and heads of independent schools","students and staff"],"clause":"Based on the current data, it appears that a state of emergency will not be justified this year. Because of this, we will issue a series of advisory memos instead of formal guidance documents... schools should require universal masking for all students and staff when indoors until November 1, 2021... Masks should be required indoors for students younger than 12, who are not eligible to be vaccinated at this time... Masks are currently required for all passengers on buses per federal regulation, regardless of age or vaccination status.","enforcement":"School-board policies enforced by exclusion (VT-072); federal bus mask order","functions":["IN instruction","TR school transport","WF parents","QUAR isolation and quarantine of students and staff"],"notes":"The State\u0027s own words: advisory memoranda in place of the force-of-law guidance that lapsed on June 15, 2021, implemented by the school boards\u0027 own orders in \u0027every school but one\u0027 (VT-085).","sourceUrl":"https://education.vermont.gov/sites/aoe/files/documents/edu-vdh-memo-french-levine-advisory-covid19-prevention-measures-fall-2021-updated.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":174271,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"VT","url":"/library/VT-094","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/VT-094","citation":"Secretary of Education French and Commissioner of Health Levine, COVID-19 Advisory Memorandum, UPDATED: COVID-19 Prevention Measures for Fall 2021 (September 28, 2021 version) (Sept. 28, 2021) (Ex. VT-094)","stateName":"Vermont","related":["VT-073","VT-085","VT-083","VT-072","VT-074"]}