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Murphy  \nLieutenant Governor Sheila Y. Oliver  \nAngelica Allen-McMillan, Ed.D.  \nActing Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Education  \nJudith M. Persichilli, R.N., B.S.N., M.A  \nCommissioner, New Jersey Department of Health  \nIntroduction  \nLocal Education Agencies (LEA) must plan to provide full-day, full-time, in-person instruction and operations for the 2021-2022 school year. The New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) and New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) worked collaboratively to develop the following guidance to operationalize that goal. This guidance includes a range of strategies that LEAs should consider implementing to reduce risks to students and staff from COVID-19 while still allowing for fulltime in-person learning. The absence of one or more of the strategies outlined in this document does not preclude the reopening of a school facility for full-day in-person operation with all enrolled students and staff present. While the State is committed to a resumption of normalcy for next school year, we will continue to monitor the data and our decisions will be guided by science to ensure that we maintain safe and healthy school communities.  \nThis document also contains expectations for the fall learning environment.  \nThe document contains recommendations for public schools rather than mandatory standards, with the exception of the mandatory masking requirement for all individuals in public, private, and parochial preschool programs and elementary and secondary schools, including charter and renaissance schools, per Executive Order 251 and vaccination or testing requirements pursuant to Executive Order 253. Non-Public schools may also utilize this document as they plan for full school reopening in the fall.  \nSchools should anticipate potential updates to this guidance prior to the start of the new school year, as additional federal recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) become available.  \nTo sign up to receive health alert messages, contact your local health department or [request a new account at](request a new account at www.njlincs.net/default.aspx)[ ](request a new account at www.njlincs.net/default.aspx)[www.njlincs.net/default.aspx](request a new account at www.njlincs.net/default.aspx)   \n3  \n1 General Health and Safety Guidelines  \nWhere possible, the following recommendations should be used to develop a layered approach to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 . Schools should implement as many layers as feasible.  \nLEAs should consider, in close consultation with their local and/or county public health officials, as  \nmany factors as feasible as they prepare for the 2021-2022 school year, including the level of COVID-19 transmission in the community at large and in their school community, as well as vaccination coverage rates in both the community at large and their school community.  \n1.1 Vaccination  \nVaccination is currently the leading public health prevention strategy to end the COVID-19 pandemic. Promoting vaccination can help schools safely return to in-person learning as well as extracurricular activities and sports. (updated 8/2021)  \nAlthough COVID-19 vaccines are safe, effective, and accessible, not all school-aged children are currently eligible to be vaccinated. Most K-12 schools will have a mixed population of fully vaccinated, partially vaccinated, and unvaccinated individuals at any given time, thereby requiring the layering of preventive measures to protect all individuals. LEAs are encouraged to have a system in place to determine the vaccination status of students, however, if an LEA is unable to determine the vaccination status of individual students, those students should be considered not fully vaccinated. 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