Florida Department of Education Guidance Regarding Masks in Schools

  • The following guidance regarding Governor Ron DeSantis' Executive Orders was issued by the Florida Department of Education to school districts on May 3, 2021:

    Questions have arisen over the impacts of the Executive Orders EO-21-101, which is not effective until July 1, 2021, and EO-21-102, which is effective immediately.

    To clarify, EO-21-102 only impacts city and county governments, and does NOT impact school districts and individual schools.

    Moreover, EO-21-101 and EO-21-102 only impacts restrictive COVID-19 orders/ordinances that are adopted through emergency enactment.

    Neither EO-21-101 nor EO-21-102 impact any school district’s policies for the remainder of the 2020-21 school year.