JLCC:   COMMUNICABLE/INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Teachers should be alert to signs of illness and communicable disease and refer students who show such symptoms to the school nurse.

The Superintendent/school nurse shall be responsible for notifying the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of any student or staff suspected of having a communicable disease, the occurrence of which is required to be reported pursuant to law and/or Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) rules. 

The building principal will be notified when a report of communicable disease has been made. 

Any student or staff for whom the CDC has prescribed isolation or quarantine shall be excluded from school and school activities for the length of time recommended by the CDC.

Students who have non-notifiable communicable diseases may be excluded from school and school activities, or shall observe other protective procedures according to recommendations issued by the school physician/school health advisor/school nurse.

Notification from the student’s health care provider shall be required before a student who has had a “notifiable” communicable disease may return to school or participate in school activities.  The building principal and/or school nurse must give permission before the student is readmitted to class.

Adopted:            May 15, 2012

Revised:                 October 1, 2019

Legal References: 

5 MRSA § 19201 et seq.

20-A MRSA §§ 1001(11)(A), 6301

22 MRSA §§ 801, 802, 806, 823, 824

Maine Dept. of Health and Human Services Rule Ch. 258(2015)