Where Teachers Are Eligible for the COVID-19 Vaccine – Education Week

Coronavirus vaccines are now rolling out across the country, and health-care workers and older people have been among the first to get their shots. Teachers and other school staff members are also on many priority lists, and efforts are well underway in some places to get them vaccinated quickly, too.

But thats not true everywhere. Exactly where educators as a group fall within phased vaccination plansand the speed with which those phases are happeningvaries greatly from state to state.

While the Centers for Disease Control has put out guidance on how to prioritize different groups of people for the vaccine, states can ultimately make their own decisions on rollout.

To keep readers updated on where things stand, Education Week is tracking plans for vaccinating K-12 educators across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

The data below were collected from official government communications and websites, rather than from local news outlets or other sources. In some cases, that means the local landscape may look a little different than what the data show. For instance, as of Jan. 15, vaccines were not available to teachers under Indianas state plan, and yet we know that in some smaller communities there teachers were offered vaccines at the end of December because there were extra doses.

As of Jan. 15, at least 12 states have made some teachers eligible to receive the coronavirus vaccine.

Since this information is changing rapidly, please note the date at which the information was last verified for each state. We will do our best to update on a rolling basis.

For more information on vaccines and schools, see these frequently asked questions.

Data Notes/Methodology:

Contact InformationFor media or research inquiries about this data, contact library@educationweek.org.

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