The very same day, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia held in James v. Almond, that the school closing statute violated the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
First, we re-analyzed data from a previously published report [ 11] of school closure statutes to identify characteristic ways of delegating school closure authority among states.
TBH participated in the study design, analyzed state school closure statutes and state pandemic plans, and helped to draft the manuscript.
An analysis of states' school closure statutes and pandemic influenza plans identified variations influencing the uniformity, timing, and duration of closures that lead to a typology of school-closure authorities and criteria.
States' pandemic influenza plans and school closure statutes are intended to guide state and local officials, but most faced a great deal of uncertainty during the 2009 influenza H1N1 epidemic.
This study began with analysis of states' school-closure statutes and pandemic influenza plans to identify the variations among them.
This study began with analysis of school-closure statutes and published pandemic influenza plans in all fifty U.S. states and interpreted the variations among them for application to modeling experiments.
At times, it had more the feel of a law school seminar about statutes of limitation and strict scrutiny standards.
Although defined as a "free" school, the first statutes of governance, approved in 1608, saw the introduction of school fees, at the rate of 4 shillings per annum, along with the school's first admissions test.
Only ten states require by statute that school districts provide publicly-funded full-day kindergarten, 34 states require school districts to provide half-day kindergarten, and six states don't require districts to provide any kindergarten.
