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School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the 2019-2020 academic year (State-by-State closure chronology)

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

Ballotpedia (Lucy Burns Institute) · United States (fifty States) (Other)

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Jurisdiction
United States (fifty States)
Level
Other
Authority
Secondary tracker, not an order
Issued
2020-06-30 June 30, 2020
Effective
Covers Mar. 12-June 30, 2020 (read as 2020-06-30)
In force
June 30, 2020 to June 30, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Schools and child care
Addressees
  • schools
  • students
  • families
Functions reached
  • IN
  • RL
  • EC
  • TR
  • FS
  • AC
  • WF
  • CB
Collection
Education and Child Care SEC-15

Operative words

All 50 states closed schools to in-person instruction at some point during the 2019-2020 academic year. In forty-eight states, officials closed schools to in-person instruction for the remainder of the academic year after the coronavirus outbreak. Officials in Montana and Wyoming closed schools to in-person instruction but later allowed them to reopen.

Enforcement

n/a (secondary source)

Notes

Fifty-State list of closure dates, extensions and remainder-of-year dates with the issuing official; 50,261,464 public school students in the 48 States closed for the year; the first-instance source for every row of state_regime_table where no primary exhibit is cited.

Retrieval note

Ballotpedia's page as it stood Sept. 26, 2026; the page's own footnotes cite the governors' releases and orders.

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.