COVID-19; DOE to recommend options for isolation & quarantine for students & employees at schools.

Board of Education; COVID-19; test-to-stay guidelines. Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with theDepartment of Health, to (i) recommend as best practice the shortestduration of quarantine possible, as recommended by the Centers forDisease Control and Prevention, for students and employees at publicschools who contract COVID-19 and (ii) develop test-to-stay guidelinesfor such schools and recommend such guidelines to schools for useas an alternative to quarantine for students and employees who contract COVID-19. The bill also provides that all guidelines established pursuant to the bill shall be immediately distributed to local schoolboards and shall reflect the most updated recommendations from theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention to limit the amount oftime out of the classroom to be as short as possible, including noquarantine, as recommended for asymptomatic individuals who havebeen fully vaccinated either within six months or have a boostedvaccination status. The bill contains an emergency clause.