Schools, Child Care and Colleges

Keeping our Communities Safe and Thriving: The Role of Public Health

Hosted by APHA, the Alliance for Disease Prevention and Response, and the COVID Collaborative, this conversation features a panel of experts on the value o...

COVID-19 School Testing Toolkit

This blog post introduces the CDC’s free toolkit of resources to help support schools with implementing regular COVID-19 school testing.

Children, Schools and Vaccines: Communicating to Parents

This document provides suggestions for communicating effectively with parents on returning to in-person learning and student vaccinations.

Courts Considering Challenges to States Blocking School Mask Requirements

This blog post summarizes legal challenges to state laws and executive orders that limit or prohibit issuing universal face mask protocols for schools based on ...

Standardized COVID-19 K-12 School Surveillance Guidance For Classification Of Clusters and Outbreaks

This resource provides guidance and regulatory information on the surveillance of COVID-19 outbreaks in K-12 schools. It also provides technical guidance on cla...

COVID-19 Outbreaks: State Reporting By Setting

This report includes a summary of the status of related reporting on contact tracing and discussion of the impact of increasing levels of community spread on st...

COVID-19 Surveillance For Local Decision Making: An Academic, School District, and Public Health Collaboration

This journal article advocates for an increase in scale of COVID-19 surveillance. Data collected and analyzed will help support decision making for community he...

K-12 Schools COVID-19 Mitigation Toolkit

This toolkit is designed for public health officials, K-12 administrators, school district officials, and occupational safety and health (OSH) professionals to ...

Schools, Child Care, and Colleges

This webpage provides strategies to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and maintain safe operations in schools, child care programs, and institutions of higher educa...

Guidance for COVID-19 Prevention in K-12 Schools

This guidance emphasizes implementing layered prevention strategies to protect students, teachers, staff, visitors, and other members of their households and su...

Household COVID-19 Risk and In-person Schooling

This report discusses the role of schools in transmission and the value of school closure.

Guidance for K-12 Education on Responding to COVID-19

This report provides guidance on the health-related issues for safely reopening schools and the practices that should be implemented in order to maintain and mo...

Science Brief: Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in K-12 Schools and Early Care and Education Programs – Updated

This science brief provides information on how to provide safe, supportive learning environments for children and adolescents and how to employ teachers and oth...

Model-Driven Mitigation Measures for Reopening Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This research article provides model-driven and data-supported mitigation strategies for reopening schools that closed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Layered Mitigation Strategies for Safe School Reopening

This fact sheet provides evidence that schools can safely open for in-person learning during the pandemic provided they use layered mitigation measures.

Current Emergencies

This toolkit provides coronavirus disease press releases from 2019 regarding telehealth, clinical, technical, billing, coding, Medicaid, Medicare and open payme...

Communication Strategies To Build Confidence And Trust In COVID-19 Vaccines

This webinar sponsored by the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health features a panel of public health officials who address communication strateg...

Closing COVID-19 Equity Gaps In Schools

This articles discusses COVID-19 equity gaps and next steps for educational equity.

Testing for COVID-19 in Schools

This toolkit provides information about COVID-19 testing in schools and provides materials that school administrators can use to teach parents, students, and st...

COVID-19: Preparedness and Response

This webpage provides a collection of academic news, journal articles, blogs, and other information related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

6 Ways Schools Can Promote COVID-19 Vaccination

This document presents six recommendations for schools to promote COVID-19 vaccinations. It also includes links to resources created or curated by the CDC.

Infection Prevention and Control in Schools

This webpage contains a collection of resources from the Infection Prevention and Control in Schools task force. It includes a guide for school-based infection ...

COVID-19: Community, Work and School

This webpage provides guidance, strategies, and information on how to protect the health of students teachers, staff, employees, vulnerable groups, and communit...

Back to School, Back Together: A Healthy Start for the 2021 School Year

This webpage is intended for schools and school districts to help plan a safe, healthy, and successful school year. It contains guides and other resources for t...

Resources for Schools and Families Impacted by COVID-19

This webpage provides a curated list of resources for school stakeholders as in-person learning resumes.

Coronavirus and COVID-19

This webpage provides information on COVID-19 and COVID-19 related services that Kaiser Permanente provides for members.

Supporting Student Success through School Health Policy

This webinar focuses on how to leverage school health policies to support children’s health and learning during COVID-19, including access to healthy meal...

Coronavirus Response – Thriving Schools

This webpage provides a compilation of resources to support school leaders and communities in navigating the coronavirus, and the resulting effects of the pande...

The K-12 National Testing Action Program: Connecting Schools with the Nation’s Leading Testing Companies to Safely Reopen

This slide deck synthesizes findings from school leaders, parents, advocates, labs and manufacturers who have come together to build, pilot, and run a variety o...