The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Austin Independent School District (Travis County, Texas) · Austin · Texas
- Level
- City
- Authority
- School district authority over campus operations (Tex. Educ. Code); the district's stated position against GA-36/GA-38
- Issued
- 2021-08-09 Aug. 9, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-08-11
- End
- Not stated (post-period treatment not researched) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Aug. 11, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementSchools and child care
- Addressees
- Austin ISD students, staff and visitors
- Functions reached
- SCH the metro's largest district under masking from the first day of school
- WF parents
- Collection
- Austin MET-AUS
Operative words
Starting Wednesday, August 11, students, staff and visitors will need to wear face masks when on school properties, Superintendent Stephanie S. Elizalde announced late Monday at a school board meeting.... Yes, but: Gov. Greg Abbott issued Executive Order GA No. 36, which prohibited schools from issuing a mask mandate.... Go Deeper: Austin ISD required masks throughout all of last school year...
Enforcement
District policy; the Health Authority rules of August 11-21, 2021 and Travis County orders supplied the governmental mandates from August 11-12, 2021
Notes
Wayback capture of the district's web announcement (August 10, 2021); the first of the August 2021 Austin-area school mask requirements, two days before the Mayor's, the Health Authority's and the County Judge's orders.
Retrieval noteDistrict announcement (secondary to the board/superintendent directive itself).