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Ex. MET-SDF-047 Order Confirmed from a secondary source

FCPS school closure and remote-instruction decisions, 2020-21

Closure announced March 12, 2020; remote instruction for the remainder of 2019-20 and the fall of 2020; staggered return to classrooms by grade after January 22, 2021

Fayette County Board of Education / Superintendent · Fayette County, Kentucky (Fayette County Public Schools) (County)

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Jurisdiction
Fayette County, Kentucky (Fayette County Public Schools) · Louisville and Lexington · Kentucky
Level
County
Authority
KRS 160.290 and 158.070; Governor's recommendations; KDE guidance
Issued
2020-03-12 Mar. 12, 2020
Effective
2020-03-16
End
2021-01 to 2021-03 (staggered return) (read as 2021-03-31)
In force
Mar. 16, 2020 to Mar. 31, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1
Limitation types
Schools and child care
Addressees
  • about 41,000 students and their families
  • FCPS employees
Functions reached
  • WF workforce (parents of FCPS students)
  • IN in-person instruction
  • EC child care
Collection
Louisville and Lexington MET-SDF

Enforcement

school-district decision

Notes

Dates from WKYT (Mar. 12, 2020: 'Fayette County joins other Kentucky schools announcing closures due to COVID-19 outbreak'), LEX 18 (Apr. 28, 2020: last day of classes May 27), WKYT (Dec. 15, 2020: 'FCPS plans for possible return to in-person learning') and the Lexington Herald-Leader (Jan. 6, 2021: 'Fayette plan to stagger classroom reopenings by grade after Jan. 22').

Retrieval note

Headline-level confirmation only.

A record of The COVID Project. The instrument's text is the source's; the summary fields are The COVID Project's reading of it. Not legal advice.