Texas on Friday announced that public schools are allowed to “temporarily limit access to on-campus instruction” for up to the first 8 weeks of the school year.
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) on Friday announced an update to its public health planning guidance (pdf) for the 2020-21 academic year, saying that school systems can hold online-only instruction for the first 4 weeks of school and can continue to do so for another 4 weeks, if needed, with a board-approved waiver request to the agency.