Las Vegas, NV (KXNT) - Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak announced an adjustment Wednesday to the COVID-19 directives regarding school operations.
The new Directive allows schools that have been offering in-person instruction to some or all students for at least 20 school days to create and implement plans to increase occupancy to 75% of the maximum based on the fire code capacity of each space within a school site or 250 people, whichever is less.
In addition, Directive 038 extends the existing 3 feet social distancing requirement for pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade students to all students in pre-K through 12th grade. Adults will still be required to maintain six feet of social distancing from other adults and from students.
Finally, the Directive removes certain restrictions on close- and full-contact sports. Full-contact and close-contact sports governed and regulated by the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA) may commence practice and competitions for full-contact and close-contact sports in accordance with guidance from the NIAA.
Students who are actively exercising as part of physical education or recess outdoors won’t have to wear face coverings. In addition, it increases the allowable capacity of school transportation vehicles to 66%.
The Clark County School District recently announced that rescheduled fall sports programs would be canceled so the directive won’t apply to them. The district said it wouldn’t have been right to go ahead with sports while there was no in-class instruction.