MUNCIE, Ind. – An assistant cheerleader coach at Central High School tested for coronavirus last week, after which nine academics and two other coaches who had been in close contact with the coach were sent home under quarantine, according to updates to the COVID-19 page on the Muncie Community Schools website.
The district update number 15 since school began Update 16, released Monday, reported that 34 Northside High School students had been sent home quarantined after being known as close contacts of a student who had tested positive but had not been to school since. symptoms began a week earlier.
Local schools are being publicly informed to varying degrees about coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19).
Cowan Community Schools, for example, provide families with timely data about COVID-19 instances with a telephone messaging system, but an online portal is missing.
But Superintendent Timothy Brown said Cowan is participating in a virus scoreboard at state schools that the state plans to publish Wednesday night, similar to the state retirement house crownvirus panel, will provide state statistics and clear search for specific school district data.
Participation in the leaderboard at the state point is lately voluntary. The state recently reported that it had collected knowledge of approximately 70% of the Hoosiers.
Some districts have little to report.
“The Burris Laboratory School has had no positive instances of COVID-19 since early August, so we don’t have anything percentage on our website,” Principal Dawn Miller told The Star Press. “We plan to participate in the state leaderboard. “
Similarly, “we don’t create our own board because the relative number of instances here is low and we communicate directly with those involved,” said Greg Hinshaw, director of Yorktown community schools. “In recent weeks, we have had only one or two cases of scholars consistent with the week at most, and none have been the result of transmission in schools. “
Yorktown presents all those requested by the state scoreboard, he said.
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Since June, Delaware network schools have frequently updated a spreadsheet that only principals and nurses have access to, Superintendent Reece Mann said.
“We are in the process of making the summary page for this running work available through our school’s online page for monkeys,” he said in an email. “Note that this cumulative total will only be numerical numbers related to ‘students lately quarantined’,’ current positive student cases ‘and’ current positive staff cases'”.
Lately, Del-Com does not provide data to the state on the grounds that “I have been involved in providing them with demographic data about students,” Mann said. “If you ask me for undeniable virtual tests, of student names, I would be more than happy to do so. “
Randolph Central Schools in Winchester publishes data similar to those provided through Muncie Community Schools, for example:
Like Randolph Central, muncie District publishes data on COVID-19 in addition to notifying the family.
“Dr. K operates with a full transparency approach,” said Andy Klotz, referring to Lee Ann Kwiatkowski, executive director of Muncie District. “Whenever there is a COVID scenario in a school, that school’s touches the families of affected students. If the incident affects other people, then we respond with more communication, such as the case of the football player Central High, who made sense to us to tell the giant network that the football program would cancel the next two. Parties. And yes, we report everything to the state for your database. “
Liberty-Perry Community Schools does not yet have a COVID-19 update page. Superintendent Bryan Rausch said, “I’m going to have our connected to the stateArray. “
Blackford County schools are emailing COVID-19 updates to parents and will participate in the state marker, Superintendent Chad Yencer told The Star Press.
Wes-Del Community Schools maintains a COVID-19 reporting dashboard on its website that provides the number of students and close contact quarantine (zero, as of Tuesday), the number of students and in positive isolation COVID-19 ( zero as of Tuesday). Tuesday) and the cumulative number of fellows and released from COVID-19 isolation (one student, one employee, since Wednesday).
With respect to the state’s next scoreboard, “Wes-Del Community Schools will participate in any required shipment of COVID data for public safety, while maintaining the legal privacy rights of students and employees,” Superintendent Kyle Mealy told The Star Press.
Monroe Central Schools provide “official statements” on the District’s online page for coVID-19, of which there appears to be only two:
For Jay Schools. ” We put our knowledge, updates and resources on our website, while informing our local newspaper, radio and social media,” superintendent Jeremy Gulley says. “Yes, we will also provide knowledge to the state board. “
Unlike some school district home pages, the link to COVID-19 data is easy to locate on the Daleville Community Schools homepage. You can’t miss it; it’s the first thing you see.
The site includes a table showing the number of young people excluded from school due to the presentation or reporting of COVID-19 symptoms, positive instances and close contact (exposures). The table is a one-day-a-week snapshot on Friday.
The worst day in the district so far 9. 36% of school number one students excluded from school due to 21 symptomatic students, a positive case and 25 close contacts on August 28.
Contact Seth Slabaugh at 765213-5834 or seths@muncie. gannett. com.