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Ex. MET-SDF-048 Order Confirmed from a secondary source

FCPS mask requirement and quarantine rules for the 2021-22 school year

Masks required of all students when school starts August 11, 2021 (announced August 3, 2021); hundreds of students in quarantine on opening day; mandate retained into February 2022

Fayette County Board of Education / Superintendent Demetrus Liggins · Fayette County, Kentucky (Fayette County Public Schools) (County)

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Jurisdiction
Fayette County, Kentucky (Fayette County Public Schools) · Louisville and Lexington · Kentucky
Level
County
Authority
KRS 160.290; district COVID-19 operations plan (SB 1, 2021 SS)
Issued
2021-08-03 Aug. 3, 2021
Effective
2021-08-11
End
2022-02 or later (retained 'despite parent push back,' Herald-Leader, Feb. 15, 2022) (read as 2022-02-15)
In force
Aug. 11, 2021 to Feb. 15, 2022
Quarters
2021 Q3
Limitation types
Face-covering requirementSchools and child careQuarantine and isolation
Addressees
  • FCPS students, employees and visitors
Functions reached
  • WF workforce (masked and quarantined children)
  • IN in-person instruction
  • EC child care
Collection
Louisville and Lexington MET-SDF

Enforcement

school-district policy

Notes

Third-quarter-2021 district mandate adopted one week before the State's EO 2021-585; Lexington opened school-based testing sites Aug. 26-31, 2021 (Ex. MET-SDF-037). Headlines: Lexington Herald-Leader, Aug. 3, 2021, 'Fayette students will have to wear masks when school starts, new superintendent says'; WKYT, Aug. 11, 2021, 'Fayette Co. Public Schools start in-person learning with hundreds in quarantine' and 'Group of parents protests mask mandate in Fayette County'; Herald-Leader, Sept. 14, 2021, 'Lexington's Dixie Elementary moves to remote learning for rest of the week due to COVID'.

Retrieval note

Headline-level confirmation.