The National and Index School District Mask & COVID-19 Vaccine Policy Tracker examines state and district level policies about masking in schools, COVID-19 vaccines for students and teachers, and COVID-19 services offered in the school setting. This tracker includes data from all 50 states, District of Columbia, Bureau of Indian Education, and major US territories, as well as 56 school districts, selected from 20 states, representing the lowest and highest poverty, and largest school district in each state.

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Monitoring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on response and recovery for students across the globe, this information is intended to be of use for education and public health policy stakeholders and researchers from around the world. This tracker is the result of a partnership between the Johns Hopkins University eSchool+ Initiative, the World Bank, and UNICEF.

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The eSchool+ Teacher and School Staff COVID-19 Vaccine Dashboard tracks the availability of vaccinations for teachers and school staff across the United States, District of Columbia, Bureau of Indian Education, and major US territories. The purpose of this dashboard is to capture real-time information about state vaccination plans for teachers and school staff. This information is intended to be of use for education and public health policy stakeholders and researchers, teachers, and school staff from across the country.

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This interactive state tracker curates school reopening plans by state, as well as guidance documents by non-governmental organizations, along six operational criteria: 1) Core Academics; 2) SARS CoV-2 Protection; 3) Before/After School Programs, including Athletics, Childcare, and Extracurriculars; 4) Building Access & Student Transportation; 5) School Health Services; and 6) Food and Nutrition, and six ethics and equity criteria 1) Parent Choice; 2) Teacher and Other School Personnel Choice; 3) Children with Special Needs/IEP/ESL/Gifted & Twice Exceptional; 4) Children of Poverty, Children of Color, Systematic Disadvantage (Low-Income Parents & Parents who are Essential Workers); 4) Privacy; and 6) Engagement and Transparency.

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Guidance on the challenges schools will face as they reopen their doors needs to take account of the ethical issues at stake. We frame school reopening around four broad moral values—well-being, liberty, justice, and legitimacy—and how policies under consideration can promote or undermine these moral values.

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The COVID-19 School Reopening Response Checklist is a tool to assist school and district leaders and other key stakeholders in the decision-making process as they navigate school reopening. It emphasizes areas in need of attention from an equity and ethics perspective. The decision-makers can use the Checklist to systematically assess their needs and resources for reopening in 6 areas: continuity of learning, infection control and facilities, food security, health, housing and safety, and supervision.

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A continuously updated list of equity-based school reopening policies under consideration or being implemented by school systems around the country.

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Our biweekly e-newsletter provides the latest information about schools and the COVID-19 pandemic. Browse the archive and sign up to receive the newsletter by email.

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An opinion piece in Education Week by Annette Anderson, Ruth Faden, and Sara Johnson argues that after the pandemic, there needs to be a more useful school accountability measure.

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