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As students returned to school for the 2021-2022 school year, states set up a variety of policies on education and the COVID-19 pandemic, including how schools should open up to in-person instruction and whether students and staff would be required to wear masks. Past the finish of the 2020-2021 school year, most 66% of students nationwide were in states that left closure decisions to schools or districts, 33% were in states with state-ordered in-person teaching, and ane% were in states with state-ordered regional school closures.^{[i] [two]} All 50 states closed schools to in-person instruction at some point during the 2019-2020 school twelvemonth in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

This article summarizes responses to the coronavirus in Oregon schools in the academic years ending in 2020, 2021, and 2022. You will find:

• A timeline of events by school year
• A nationwide summary of school mask and vaccine requirements in the 2021-2022 school year
• A summary of schoolhouse reopening statuses in the 2020-2021 academic year
• A summary of schoolhouse reopening statuses in the 2019-2020 bookish year

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Timeline by schoolhouse year

Beneath is a list of major events involving schools in Oregon during the coronavirus pandemic between 2019 and 2022, including school closings and openings, mask requirements, and the release of statewide operating guidance. Know of something nosotros missed? Click here to email us and let us know.

2021-2022 school twelvemonth

• March 12, 2022: Statewide school mask requirements ended in California, Washington, and Oregon. California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D), and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) jointly appear the change on Feb. 28.^[3]
• February 28, 2022: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D), and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) jointly appear their statewide school mask requirements would end on March 12.^[3]
• February. 24, 2022: The Oregon Wellness Authority appear it would end the statewide school mask requirement on March nineteen. It had initially said the requirement would cease on March 31.^[4]
• Feb. 7, 2022: The Oregon Wellness Authority appear it would stop the statewide school mask requirement on March 31.^[5]
• Jan. 28, 2022: The Oregon Health Say-so issued a school mask requirement that did not have an expiration engagement. The Oregon Health Dominance said it could rescind the dominion when it adamant it was no longer needed.^[6]
• Sept. nine, 2021: At the first of the school year, Burbio, a school data aggregator, reported six in-person schooling disruptions in Oregon.^{[7] [8]}
• Aug. 19, 2021: Gov. Kate Brown (D) announced that all teachers and staff in Chiliad-12 schools would exist required to be fully vaccinated confronting the coronavirus by Oct. xviii or 6 weeks later full FDA approval of a coronavirus vaccine.^[9]
• July 29, 2021: Gov. Kate Dark-brown (D) announced that masks would be required indoors at K-12 public schools in the state.^[10]

2020-2021 school year

• June 29, 2021: At the end of the schoolhouse year, Burbio reported a bulk of schools were in-person in Oregon .^{[11] [12]}
• April nineteen, 2021: Oregon public schools had to open for hybrid or total-fourth dimension in-person instruction for grades 6-12 by April 19. Gov. Kate Brownish (D) issued the requirement on March 12.^[thirteen]
• March 29, 2021: Oregon public elementary schools had to reopen no afterward than March 29 for hybrid or full-time in-person instruction. Parents could still keep their children in fully remote teaching.^[xiv]
• March 12, 2021: Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) issued an executive order requiring public uncomplicated schools to reopen no later than March 29 for hybrid or total-time in-person instruction. The guild as well required public schools to open for grades 6-12 by April nineteen. Parents could all the same keep their children in fully remote instruction.^[15]
• March five, 2021: Gov. Kate Brown (D) appear she would result an executive order requiring public elementary schools to reopen no afterwards than March 29 for hybrid or total-fourth dimension in-person instruction. The order was also scheduled to crave public schools to open for grades 6-12 past April 19. She said parents could still keep their children in fully remote instruction.^[16]
• Jan one, 2021: Oregon's schoolhouse reopening metrics, which adamant when schools could open, became advisory instead of mandatory.^[17]
• Oct 30, 2020: The Oregon Department of Didactics released updated school reopening guidance. Under the rules, schools in counties with less than 50 new coronavirus cases per 100,000 residents over fourteen days could resume full-time, in-person learning. Previously, the state only allowed full-time, in-person schedules in counties with 10 or fewer new cases per 100,000 residents each calendar week over a three-week rolling boilerplate.^[18]
• October 6, 2020: The Oregon Department of Education appear the state would disregard positivity rate data from September in determining whether school districts could reopen. The announcement meant school districts could reopen for in-person instruction if their counties met the state's case count criteria until October positivity information was available.^[19]
• Sept. ten, 2020: At the start of the schoolhouse year, Burbio reported almost schools were using virtual or hybrid learning in Oregon .^{[20] [21]}
• August xi, 2020: The Oregon Department of Teaching released updated school reopening guidelines that allowed schools to reopen to in-person instruction if the school had 250 students or fewer, was in a county with fewer than 30,000 residents, and if the county had reported no more than than 30 COVID-xix cases in the past three weeks.^[22]
• July 28, 2020: Oregon Gov. Kate Dark-brown (D) announced the metrics that would guide school reopening decisions. Counties needed to have x or fewer coronavirus cases per 100,000 people and a vii-day positivity rate of v% or less for iii consecutive weeks before in-person and hybrid instruction could resume. The state also needed to have a positivity rate of v% or less for three consecutive weeks earlier any in-person or hybrid educational activity could resume.^[23]
• June 10, 2020: The Oregon Department of Education released guidelines for schools to reopen for the 2020-2021 school year. Under the programme, individual public and private schools would demand to submit an Operational Design for Reentry to their local public health authorization earlier they reopened.^[24]

2019-2020 school year

• April 8, 2020: Brown airtight schools for the remainder of the academic twelvemonth. Prior to the announcement, schools were closed through April 28.^[25]
• March 17, 2020: Brown appear that the statewide schoolhouse closure, scheduled to stop March 31, was extended to April 28.^[26]
• March 12, 2020: Brown announced that schools across the state would close from March 16 through March 31.^[fifteen]

Mask and vaccine requirements in the 2021-2022 school year

Mask requirements in schools

Encounter also: School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-nineteen) pandemic during the 2021-2022 bookish yr

Equally of Apr 1, 2022, masks were required in schools by 1 state (Hawaii). 40-two states left mask requirements in schools upward to local government. 7 states banned school mask requirements.

Ii statewide school mask requirement ban only practical to some schools:

• Iowa'southward schoolhouse mask requirement ban just applied to schools where no students with disabilities who required mask accommodations were in attendance.

The table below shows school mask requirement laws and orders in states with schoolhouse mask requirements or school mask requirement bans in identify.

Mask requirement orders
State	Ban or requirement?	Type of gild	Date lifted or contradistinct
Arizona	Ban	Legislative activity	Sept. 26, 2021 - Suspended by court activeness
Arkansas	Ban	Legislative activity	Sept. 30, 2021 - Suspended by courtroom activeness
California	Requirement	California Department of Public Wellness social club	March 12, 2022 - Lifted past executive action
Connecticut	Requirement	Executive order	Feb. 28, 2022 - Lifted by executive action
Delaware	Requirement	Executive order	March ane, 2022 - Lifted by executive action
Florida	Ban	Executive social club	N/A[27]
Georgia	Ban	Legislative activity	N/A
Hawaii	Requirement	Executive order	North/A
Illinois	Requirement	Illinois Department of Public Health club	Feb. four, 2022 - Suspended past court action[28]
Iowa	Ban	Legislative activeness	Jan. 25, 2022 - Reinstated for some schools by court action[29]
Kentucky	Requirement	Kentucky Board of Instruction order	Sept. 9, 2021 - Suspended by state police force
Louisiana	Requirement	Executive order	February. 16, 2022 - Lifted by executive action[thirty]
Maryland	Requirement	Maryland Land Board of Education order	March 1, 2022 - Lifted past executive activeness[31]
Massachusetts	Requirement	Massachusetts Department of Unproblematic and Secondary Education social club	Feb. 28, 2022 - Lifted by executive action[32]
Nevada	Requirement	Executive order	Feb. 10, 2022 - Lifted by executive action
New Jersey	Requirement	Executive order	March 7, 2022 - Lifted by executive action
New United mexican states	Requirement	New Mexico Public Pedagogy Department order	February. 17, 2022 - Lifted by executive action
New York	Requirement	Executive society	March 3, 2022 - Lifted past executive action
Oklahoma	Ban	Executive society	Due north/A
Oregon	Requirement	Oregon Health Authorization and Department of Teaching order	March 12, 2022 - Lifted by executive activeness
Pennsylvania	Requirement	Pennsylvania Department of Health order	December. 10, 2021 - Suspended past court action
Rhode Island	Requirement	Executive order	March iv, 2022 - Lifted by executive activity
South Carolina	Ban	Legislative action	Sept. 28, 2021 - Temporarily suspended by court activeness
Tennessee	Ban	Executive order	Dec. 10, 2021 - Suspended by court action
Texas	Ban	Executive order	N/A[33]
Utah	Ban	Legislative action	Northward/A
Virginia	Ban	Legislative activeness	N/A
Washington	Requirement	Washington State Section of Public Health order	March 12, 2022 - Lifted by executive action

School mask requirements over time

School mask bans over time

Teacher and schoolhouse employee vaccine requirements

Come across also: School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the 2021-2022 academic twelvemonth

As of February 7, 2022, vii states had issued a statewide requirement for K-12 teachers and staff to be vaccinated against the coronavirus or receive regular coronavirus testing. The tabular array beneath shows teacher and staff vaccine requirement laws and orders in states with teacher and staff vaccine requirements in place.

Vaccine requirement orders
State	Testing instead of vaccination allowed?	Type of order	Appointment effective
California	Yeah	California Department of Public Health order	October. xv, 2021
Connecticut	No	Executive club	Sept. 27, 2021
Delaware	Yes	Executive order	Nov. 1, 2021
Illinois	Yep	Executive club	Issued: Sept. xix, 2021 Suspended by courtroom activity on February. four, 2022
New Jersey	Aye	Executive order	Oct. 18, 2021
New York	Yes	Executive order	Sept. 19, 2021
Oregon	No	Executive gild	Oct. eighteen, 2021
Washington	No	Executive order	October. 18, 2021

Student vaccine requirements

Encounter as well: School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the 2021-2022 bookish year

On October. 1, 2021, California became the beginning state to announce a vaccine requirement for eligible students. Louisiana likewise appear a vaccine requirement for eligible students on December. fourteen.

Schoolhouse reopenings and closures (2020-2021 bookish year)

See also: School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-xix) pandemic during the 2020-2021 academic yr

Initial school year operating plan

Come across also: Documenting America'due south Path to Recovery: July 20, 2020

Oregon released an initial operating program for the 2020-2021 school year on June 10, 2020. An analysis of this plan appeared in our Documenting America's Path to Recovery newsletter on July twenty. The sections beneath include an analysis of the plan, the details of the plan, and reactions from officials to the plan.

The Oregon Department of Pedagogy released school reopening guidance on June 10. The document contains recommendations for schools, which are responsible for creating private reopening plans. Each public and private school must submit an Operational Blueprint for Reentry to their local public health dominance.

On March 12, Gov. Kate Brown (D) closed public schools from March 16 through March 31. On March 17, Brown extended the closure through April 28. Brown closed schools for the residual of the academic year on April 8.

Oregon does not accept a statewide engagement for schools to reopen. Co-ordinate to EdWeek, public schools in Oregon traditionally showtime the bookish year from late August to early September, with the exact engagement varying by district.

Context

Oregon is a Democratic trifecta, with a Autonomous governor and Democratic majorities in both chambers of the state legislature.

The following tables show public teaching statistics in Oregon, including a rank comparing it to the other 49 states. Rank one is the highest number of each figure, rank 50 is the lowest. All information comes from the Common Core of Data provided by the National Center for Didactics Statistics.

Oregon schoolhouse metrics
Category	Figure	Rank
Per student spending (16-17)	$13,355	24
Number of students (eighteen-19)	573,584	29
Number of teachers (Fall 2016)	29,756	33
Number of public schools (18-19)	1,257	30
Student:teacher ratio (eighteen-19)	20.2	5
Percent qualifying for free/reduced lunch (sixteen-17)	50.l%	19

Oregon school revenue
Category	Effigy	Rank
Full revenue	$7,077,486,000	28
Federal revenue pct	8.0%	33
Land revenue percent	52.0%	21
Local revenue per centum	40.0%	26

Details

District reopening plans
Each private schoolhouse is responsible for submitting an Operational Design for Reentry to their local public health authorisation. The wellness say-so must approve the program earlier a school tin reopen. Reopening plans must be fabricated available online past Aug. 15.

On June 10, Section of Education Manager Colt Gill said, "We empathize and honor the importance of local vocalisation, leadership and control. These individual plans will reflect the distinct strengths and needs of each district and community."

In-person, hybrid, and online learning
Each private school volition decide whether to use in-person teaching, online learning, or a hybrid model. Schools choosing to simply offer online learning must explicate why they are not offering in-person education or hybrid learning.

Mask requirements
Face coverings are required for staff who are regularly within vi feet of students or staff, bus drivers, staff preparing or serving meals, front end office staff, and school nurses when providing direct contact care. All adult visitors are also required to wear face coverings.

Confront coverings are recommended for all staff (based on local public wellness and CDC guidelines) and students in 6th-12th form.

Conditions under which children should non wear a face covering are:

• If they accept a medical status that makes it difficult to exhale through a face covering
• If they accept a disability that prevents them from wearing a face roofing
• If they are unable to remove the confront covering independently
• If they are sleeping.

In-person health recommendations and requirements
The program suggests that schools develop plans that incorporate the following recommendations:

• Limiting the number of classroom transitions throughout the day
• Create hallway procedures to promote concrete distancing and limit gatherings
• Cancel, change, or postpone field trips, assemblies, athletic events, and other large gatherings to run into physical distancing requirements
• Modify after school programs to meet physical distancing requirements
• Create staggered inflow and/or dismissal schedules
• Assign students or cohorts to specific school entrances and exits
• Only allow one accomplice to use playgrounds at a time and disinfect the area between uses
• Stagger repast times and determine alternate locations for eating meals.

Transportation and busing requirements and restrictions
The plan offers the following suggestions for transportation:

• Double-decker drivers are required to wear face coverings. But students displaying symptoms are required to wearable a face covering. Students with symptoms are required to stay six feet away from others but should exist transported to school and isolated.
• There must exist at least 3 feet of concrete space between passengers. When possible, there should be at to the lowest degree six anxiety between the driver and passengers.
• Brand routing adjustments and adjust bell times to account for reduced chapters due to physical distancing guidelines.

Map of school closures

The map below shows the status of school reopenings and closures at the end of the 2020-2021 academic yr.

Every bit of July viii, 2021, the status of school closures and reopenings was equally follows:

• Two states (Delaware, Hawaii) and Washington, D.C. had state-ordered regional schoolhouse closures, required closures for certain grade levels, or allowed hybrid instruction just.
  • 2019-20 enrollment: 410,896 students (0.81% of students nationwide)
• 13 states had state-ordered in-person didactics.
  • 2019-20 enrollment: fifteen,697,460 students (thirty.96% of students nationwide)
• One land (Arizona) had state-ordered in-person instruction for certain grades.
  • 2019-20 enrollment: 1,152,586 students (2.27% of students nationwide)
• Thirty-four states left decisions to schools or districts.
  • 2019-20 enrollment: 33,449,499 students (65.96% of students nationwide)

School reopenings and closures (2019-2020 academic year)

See as well: School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the 2019-2020 academic year

The map below shows the condition of school reopenings and closures at the terminate of the 2019-2020 academic year.

• States closed to in-person teaching for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year: 48
• Number of public school students in states closed to in-person didactics for the residue of the 2019-2020 school year: 50,261,464

The chart below shows the first date schools in a state were closed to in-person didactics during the 2019-2020 bookish year, divided by the political political party of the governor.

Schoolhouse responses by state

To read about schoolhouse responses to the coronavirus pandemic in others states, click one of the following links below:

• Alabama
• Alaska
• Arizona
• Arkansas
• California
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• Delaware
• Florida
• Georgia
• Hawaii
• Idaho
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Montana
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• New York
• Northward Carolina
• Northward Dakota
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Isle
• S Carolina
• South Dakota
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Utah
• Vermont
• Virginia
• Washington
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming

General resources

The nautical chart below shows coronavirus statistics from countries across the world. The information is provided by Existent Clear Politics.

Click the links below to explore official resources related to the coronavirus outbreak.

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Section of Health & Man Services
• National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor
• U.S. Department of Education
• Earth Health Organization
• Trends in Number of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in the United states of america Reported to CDC, by Land/Territory
• Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations, Our World in Data (Number of vaccines administered)
• Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker, New York Times (Progress of vaccine trials)

See also

• Documenting America's Path to Recovery
• Schoolhouse responses to the coronavirus pandemic past land (2021-2022 academic year)
• School responses to the coronavirus pandemic by land (2020-2021 academic year)
• Oregon's responses to the coronavirus pandemic
• COVID-nineteen vaccine distribution past land
• Travel restrictions by state
• Federal regime responses to the coronavirus pandemic

Footnotes

1. ↑ National Center for Didactics Statistics, "Number of operating public schools and districts, student membership, teachers, and pupil/teacher ratio, past state or jurisdiction: Schoolhouse year 2019–20," accessed September 10, 2021
2. ↑ EducationWeek, "Map: Where Were Schools Required to Exist Open up for the 2020-21 School Year?," June fourteen, 2021
3. ↑ ^{3.0 three.i} Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named CA228
4. ↑ Salem Reporter, "UPDATED: Oregon to lift indoor mask mandate March 19, including in schools," Feb 24, 2022
5. ↑ Oregon Health Authorisation, "Oregon will lift indoor mask requirements no later than March 31," February vii, 2022
6. ↑ KGW, "Oregon extends indoor mask requirement for K-12 schools as current rules expire," Jan 28, 2022
7. ↑ To read more almost Burbio's schoolhouse disruption tracking, click hither
8. ↑ Burbio, "Burbio's K-12 School Opening Tracker," accessed August 27, 2021
9. ↑ Oregon Office of the Governor, "Governor Kate Brownish Announces Ii New Vaccination Measures To Address Hospital Crunch, Help Proceed Students Safe," Baronial 19, 2021
10. ↑ OPB, "Oregon to require masks indoors for Grand-12 schools," July 29, 2021
11. ↑ Burbio rated Oregon's in-person index at 63.4. To read more than about Burbio'south school opening tracker, click here. To read more about Burbio's methodology, click here.
12. ↑ Burbio, "Burbio'due south Chiliad-12 School Opening Tracker," accessed October. eight, 2021
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15. ↑ ^{15.0 15.i} My Oregon News, "Governor Kate Brown Announces Statewide School Closure for Students in Oregon from Mon, March 16 through Tuesday, March 31," March 12, 2020
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19. ↑ Oregon Public Dissemination, "Oregon relaxes school COVID-19 standards, opens door for more than in-person learning," accessed Oct 6, 2020
20. ↑ Burbio rated Oregon'south in-person index between 0-xx. To read more about Burbio's school opening tracker, click hither. To read more than well-nigh Burbio'south methodology, click here.
21. ↑ Burbio, "Burbio's K-12 School Opening Tracker," accessed Oct. 8, 2021
22. ↑ The Message, "New state guidelines brand it easier for smaller schools to reopen," August 11, 2020
23. ↑ Oregon Wellness Potency, "Set Schools, Safe Learners: Community COVID-19 Metrics," accessed July xxx, 2020
24. ↑ Oregon Department of Instruction, "Prepare Schools, Safety Learners," accessed June 11, 2020
25. ↑ Oregon Live, "Oregon schools will remain closed for the rest of the bookish year," April 8, 2020
26. ↑ KDRV, "Governor Brownish extends Oregon schoolhouse closures through Apr 28," March 17, 2020
27. ↑ On Sept. 2, 2021 the ban was temporarily suspended by court action. An appeals courtroom upheld the ban on Sept. 10.
28. ↑ Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) concluded the statewide schoolhouse mask requirement on February. 28, 2022.
29. ↑ On Sept. 13, 2021 the ban was temporarily suspended past court action for all schools.
30. ↑ Oct. 26, 2021 - Schoolhouse districts could exist exempt from the schoolhouse mask requirement if they followed CDC quarantine guidance
31. ↑ Dec. seven, 2021 - School districts could be exempt from the school mask requirement if they met one of the three post-obit criteria: 1) the canton vaccination rate was eighty% or college, two) 80% of school staff and students were vaccinated, or iii) COVID-xix transmission in the canton was considered moderate or low for 14 straight days.
32. ↑ Oct. 1 - Schools could become exempt from the school mask requirement when at to the lowest degree lxxx% of students were vaccinated
33. ↑ On Nov. 10, 2021 the ban was suspended past court action. An appeals court upheld the ban on Dec. 1.

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