The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- North Carolina
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Session Law 2021-4 (Senate Bill 220)
- Issued
- 2021-03-11 Mar. 11, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-03-11 (in-person instruction required within 21 days) (read as 2021-03-11)
- End
- end of the 2020-2021 school year; contract provisions to 2021-09-15 (read as 2021-09-15)
- In force
- Mar. 11, 2021 to Sept. 15, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Schools and child care
- Addressees
- all local school administrative units
- Functions reached
- IN in-person instruction
- RL remote learning option
- WF workforce (parents)
- Collection
- North Carolina NC
Operative words
SECTION 1. All local school administrative units shall provide in-person instruction to students in grades kindergarten through 12... for the remainder of the scheduled 2020-2021 school year, beginning no later than the first instructional day scheduled in the adopted school calendar that occurs 21 days following the effective date of this act. SECTION 2... Local boards of education shall provide in-person instruction under either Plan A (Minimal Social Distancing), Plan B (Six Feet Social Distancing)... except that a local board shall provide the option to participate in Plan A instruction, at the discretion of the student's parent [for students with IEPs]... SECTION 6. This act is effective when it becomes law.
Enforcement
Statutory mandate; Plans A and B as defined in the StrongSchoolsNC Toolkit as of March 4, 2021
Notes
Sec. 2 requires a remote option for families and reporting of shifts to remote instruction; middle and high schools moving to Plan A must notify NCDHHS.
Retrieval noteSigned Mar. 11, 2021 (Husch Blackwell; session law header).