Recommendations & Requirements

Playground structures must continue to undergo normal routine cleaning, but using an EPA-approved disinfectant is unnecessary.

Ensure safe and correct use and storage of cleaning and disinfection products, including storing products securely away from children, and with adequate ventilation when staff use products.

All busing operations are suspended.

PHase 4: The bus driver, staff, and all students in grades preK-12, if medically feasible, must wear facial coverings while on the bus. Note: there may be situations where it is not safe for the bus driver to wear a facial covering. Decisions about these situations should be made on a case-by-case basis with local public health officials.

Phase 5: The bus driver, staff, and all students in grades preK-12, if medically feasible, should wear facial coverings while on the bus.

Clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces in the vehicle (e.g., surfaces in the driver’s cockpit, hard seats, arm rests, door handles, seat belt buckles, light and air controls, doors and windows, and grab handles) prior to morning routes and prior to afternoon routes.

Create a plan for getting students home safely if they are not allowed to board the vehicle.

Phase 4: If a driver becomes sick during the day, they must follow protocols for sick staff outlined above and must not return to drive students.

Phase 5: If a driver becomes sick during the day, they should follow protocols for sick staff outlined above and should not return to drive students.

Weather permitting, consider keeping windows open while the vehicle is in motion to help reduce spread of the virus by increasing air circulation, if appropriate and safe.

Create a process for students/families and staff to self-identify as high-risk for severe illness due to COVID-19 and have a plan in place to address requests for alternative learning arrangements or work reassignments.

Phase 4: Enable staff who are high-risk for severe illness to minimize face-to-face contact and to allow them to maintain a distance of six feet from others, modify job responsibilities that limit exposure risk, or to telework if possible. Meaningfully engage and consult with local bargaining units.

Phase 5: Enable staff who are high-risk for severe illness to minimize face-to-face contact and to allow them to maintain a distance of six feet from others, modify job responsibilities that limit exposure risk, or to telework if possible.

Facial coverings must always be worn by staff except for meals. Facial coverings may be homemade or disposable level-one (basic) grade surgical masks. Any staff member who cannot medically tolerate a facial covering must not wear one. Any staff member that is incapacitated or unable to remove the facial covering without assistance, must not wear a facial covering.

• PreK-5 and special education teachers should consider wearing clear masks.
• Homemade facial coverings must be washed daily.
• Disposable facial coverings must be disposed of at the end of each day.