ounces online posting of 45 plans submitted by State Education Agencies (SEAs) that describe how they intend to use American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ARP ESSER) funds to support schools, students and educators.
States Address Students' Transition Back to School: Tracks state policies implementing or banning mask mandates in schools, including policies in many states that have left decisions on school mask mandates up to localities. The map-based database, developed and managed by the National Academy for State Health Policy, is part of a resource page that also includes policies states are enacting for back-to-school for 2021-22, including vaccines and mental health.
Mental Health and Substance Use State Fact Sheets: Examines national and state-level data on mental health (MH) and substance use (SUD) both before and during the coronavirus pandemic. The Kaiser Family Foundation reports that MH outcomes, access, and coverage vary from state to state. This product highlights findings from a national analysis; and presents detailed state-level data for all fifty states and the District of Columbia.
State Approaches to Addressing Student Mental Health: Highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated student mental health challenges, illustrates a common framework for student mental health services, and summarizes state legislative trends in supporting students to prevent, identify and address student mental health in schools. The Education Commission of the States developed this policy brief (May 2021).
Student Mental Health Services Ecosystem: Describes context for student mental health services spanning two major sectors (health and human services, and K-12 education), and three levels of governance, policy and funding (federal, state and local) to support decision-making and oversight for system development, maintenance and improvement. This brief by the Education Commission of the States also provides examples of coordinated efforts among those entities from six states (CO, IA, MD, MN, NC and OH), including hyperlinks to seminal documents from each.
As COVID-19 spreads, most states have laws that address how schools should respond to pandemics: Presents a state-by-state database of the text of state statutes and regulations—as well as noncodified guidance from state health and education agencies—that relates to pandemic planning for schools. Child Trends and EMT Associates, Inc. have designed this tool as a resource for educators, policymakers and general audiences to learn more about pandemic planning for schools within their states.
COVID-19 State Action Center: Publishes resources to both feature, and inform, pertinent developments in state-level health policy to address and manage the COVID-19 pandemic. An updated tracker of state vaccine mandates was added to the site in October 2021. This tracking resource is compiled and updated by the National Academy for State Health Policy.
Chart: States' COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Declarations, Mask Requirements and Travel Advisories: Describes each state’s latest emergency orders and actions designed to safeguard residents during the COVID-19 pandemic, including statewide mask requirements and travel advisories. The Biden Administration has also issues a mask mandate for federal properties and recommendations for states and businesses in this executive order. The National Academy of State Health Policy [NASHP] hosts this process as part of its COVID-19 State Action Center.
First Look Brief: National Survey on Public Education’s Coronavirus Pandemic Response: Reports preliminary findings of large-scale nationally representative survey to understand how school districts and charter school management organizations (CMOs) are responding to the pandemic. This brief by the American Institutes for Research [AIR] previewed survey results about districts’ approaches to distance learning during the spring 2020 months of the pandemic. Subsequent research briefs, technical supplements, an interactive data tool, and recorded podcasts and webi