Current local public health orders require that “Schools must provide public notice to the school community in  a highly visible location on the school’s website that outlines the school’s COVID-19 prevention strategies for the 2021-2022 school year by completing the COVID-19 Prevention Strategy for Schools Form.  Public notice must be published no later than August 27, 2021.  The school must notify the school community and teh OCDPH of any subsequent changes in the school’s COVID-19 prevention strategies by indicating revision date and revision history in the COVID-19 Prevention Strategy for Schools Form.

The following form should be used to clearly demonstrate the prevention strategies being utlized by local schools.  The status of each prevention strategy on this form must be completed by schools.  Items containing the label “required by order” are prevention strategies that are required per local or MDHHS public health order.  Additional notes or explanation should be added where clarity is needed.  This form may be completed at the district level if the status of all prevention strategies are applicable to all schools in the district.  Where differences in prevention strategies exist between schools in the same district, individual Prevention Strategy for Schools Forms should be posted for each school, or noted claerly on a single district-level Prevention Strategy for Schools Form.

SPS COVID-19 Prevention Strategy Form – 2_21_22 BOE

Prevention strategies listed on the following form are based on CDC Guidance for COVID-19 Prevention in K-12 Schools, found at the following website:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/k-12-guidance.html