PROJECT RESTART
COMMUNICATION OF POSITIVE TEST
How have you communicated positive cases within a school building?
Given we are largely closed to the public, we have followed VDH and CDC guidance regarding individual notifications: Notifying staff in a facility who came into close contact with the infected employee. (VDH: Close contact defined as within 6 feet for 15 minutes or longer.)
How will you communicate positive cases in a school building or on a bus?
In the interest of transparency and a continued trusting relationship between school-home, we plan to go above and beyond the VDH and CDC guidance:
- Once staff returns for virtual learning: Will notify all staff members in a building if there is a positive case within the facility; name of individual infected will not be shared; work directly regarding need for quarantine
- (DURING COHORT NO. 1) Once students return for in-person instruction: Will notify all staff/families if there is a positive case in facility/on bus; name of individual infected will not be shared; work directly regarding need for quarantine. (The general school population will not be notified at this time because of the small number of students in attendance that would make such notification self-identifiable and violate student privacy rights.)
- (ONCE COHORT NO. 2 RETURNS TO SCHOOL) Once students return for in-person instruction: Will notify all staff/families if there is a positive case in facility/on bus; name of individual infected will not be shared; work directly regarding need for quarantine
Data from the previous day will be updated by 10 a.m. the following morning.
CASES REPORTED SINCE TEACHERS RETURNED ON AUG. 31