The COVID Project
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The record
- Jurisdiction
- New Mexico Public Education Department (Secretary of Public Education); State level · New Mexico
- Level
- State
- Authority
- N.M. Stat. s. 22-2-2; the Secretary of Health's Public Health Emergency Orders
- Issued
- 2021-07-26 July 26, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-07-26 (2021-22 school year, which began in August 2021) (read as 2021-07-26)
- End
- Revised through the 2021-22 school year (in force on Sept. 30, 2021) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- July 26, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementSchools and child careWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- all New Mexico public schools and charter schools
- students, staff and families
- Functions reached
- IN in-person instruction under masking, reporting and quarantine rules
- RL remote instruction for quarantined students
- AC athletics and activities under the toolkit
- EMP staff reporting and exclusion
- WF parents' workforce (quarantined children)
- CB families
- Character
- context
- Collection
- State education and higher-education authorities AGY-ST-EDUCATION-HIGHER-ED
Operative words
Each school must identify a COVID-19 Point Person... must report positive cases of COVID-19 to NMPED by the next business day... schools must also notify families... all of their close contacts must be identified and quarantined... They should quarantine for 10 days from the last [exposure]... If the student does not get tested, the student must self-[quarantine]... they must quarantine for the full 10 days regardless
Enforcement
Public Health Emergency Orders (N.M. Stat. s. 12-10A-19 penalties); 6.12.15 NMAC (record 049); PED's supervisory authority over public schools (N.M. Stat. s. 22-2-2)
Notes
The 2021-22 New Mexico school regime; the Aug. 12, 2021 emergency rule 6.12.15 NMAC (record 049) gave the toolkit's requirements regulatory form; the PHO of Aug. 17, 2021 (Ex. NM-068) added the school-worker vaccination-or-testing requirement
Retrieval noteToolkit (capture of Aug. 6, 2021) read in the reporting, isolation and quarantine sections; verbatim clause assembled from the requirement sentences with bracketed connectors where the two-column layout broke the line.