The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Arkansas
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Ark. Code Ann. 20-7-110 (ADH quarantine and exclusion); ARP ESSER Safe Return to In-Person Instruction plan requirements
- Issued
- 2021-07-27 July 27, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-08 (school year) (read as 2021-07-27)
- End
- 2021-22 school year (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- July 27, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementSchools and child careQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- school districts, students, staff, families
- Functions reached
- WF workforce (quarantined children of employees)
- IN in-person instruction
- EC child care
- TR transport
- Collection
- Arkansas AR
Operative words
Although masks or other face coverings can no longer be mandated in Arkansas public schools, as prohibited by Act 1002 of 2021, the CDC currently recommends the following... Fully-vaccinated students or staff do not need to quarantine if deemed close contacts, unless they have/develop symptoms.... Individuals exposed to a confirmed case of COVID-19 will not need to be quarantined if they have no symptoms and both the infected and exposed individual consistently and correctly were wearing a mask.... Districts should continue to screen individuals who enter facilities... ensuring individuals with symptoms of COVID-19, and those needing to be excluded, do not enter the facility.
Enforcement
Quarantine and exclusion under ADH authority; districts' Safe Return plans (federal ARP ESSER condition)
Notes
After the Aug. 6, 2021 injunction against Act 1002, districts (Little Rock, Marion and others) adopted mask requirements; this guidance's masking-based quarantine exemption then governed. Ballotpedia links this document as 'Arkansas' statewide guidance for the 2021-2022 school year as of Aug. 6, 2021'.
Retrieval noteText layer read (pages 1-4).