Marple Newtown Schools Submit Health Guidance Attestation Form

BROOMALL, PA — Nearly all public schools in Pennsylvania have submitted an attestation form ensuring they have instituted health, safety, and mitigation strategies for in-person learning.

Among those schools is the Marple Newtown School District.

The Pennsylvania Department of Education said more than 99 percent of public school entities have submitted the form and that remaining entities are anticipated to comply. Local educational agencies that do not return the form must provide fully remote instruction and suspend extra-curricular activities until the form is provided to PDE.

The attestation form was created to ensure school communities are implementing mandated health, safety, and mitigation strategies when offering in-person instruction in a county with substantial levels of community transmission for two consecutive weeks.

Public school entities in counties in the substantial range are required to sign an attestation form affirming that if they are providing any type of in-person instruction that they are following the recently revised Department of Health face covering order and Department of Health guidance on how to handle confirmed cases in buildings.

While PDE recommends fully remote learning for school entities in substantial, the attestation form creates a path for those that want to continue to provide any in-person instruction.

PDE has a space on its website that provides a list of public-school entities that have submitted an attestation form.