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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m so grateful for SB 1303 right now. Otherwise I know we’d be looking at another year of virtual and hybrid in Arlington. [/quote]

Does this law address how schools should respond if there an outbreak in a classroom or school-wide?  It just seems inevitable there are going to be closures given most students are unvaccinated, and I’m wondering if schools are prepared to pivot and whether that would still comply with the law that passed.[/quote]

They can close individual classes or even the whole building for a limited amount of time. They cannot return the entire district to virtual.

https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0456

1. If a local school board determines, in collaboration with the local health department and in strict adherence to "Step 2: Determine the Level of School Impact" in the Department of Health's Interim Guidance to K-12 School Reopening or any similar provision in any successor guidance document published by the Department of Health, that the transmission of COVID-19 within a school building is at a high level, the local school board may provide fully remote virtual instruction or a combination of in-person instruction and remote virtual instruction to the at-risk groups of students indicated as the result of such collaboration or, if needed, the whole student population in the school building, but in each instance only for as long as it is necessary to address and ameliorate the level of transmission of COVID-19 in the school building.[/quote]

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