The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- East Baton Rouge Parish School System (EBRPSS), East Baton Rouge Parish · New Orleans and Baton Rouge · Louisiana
- Level
- County
- Authority
- School board authority over school operations; LDOE/LDH guidance
- Issued
- 2021-08-03 Aug. 3, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-08 (start of the 2021-22 school year) (read as 2021-08-03)
- End
- Continued through the fall 2021 semester (masking changes announced for spring 2022) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Aug. 3, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementSchools and child care
- Addressees
- all K-12 students, staff and bus riders in the parish public schools
- families and employers of parents
- Functions reached
- WF workforce with school-age children (quarantine and masking rules of the 2021-22 year)
- SCH
- Collection
- New Orleans and Baton Rouge MET-MSY
Operative words
All students in kindergarten to 12th grade will be required to wear a mask in the school setting, and all children and staff will be required to wear masks when traveling on school busses. Additionally, EBRPSS will begin to offer free, periodic COVID-19 testing to staff and students, with parental consent.
Enforcement
Notes
The parish school system (about 40,000 students) had shifted to all-virtual instruction for the start of 2020-21 (July 2020 release) and returned under masking and quarantine rules in 2021-22.
Retrieval noteSchool system's own announcement, archived Aug. 12, 2021.