As schools across the D.C. region review new guidelines from the CDC that loosened covid protocols, Prince George's County school district tightened its strategy this week by reinstating a systemwide mask.
schools end quarantines for students and staff exposed to covid, allow students in different classrooms to mix and emphasize ventilation and air filtration. It also recommended ending test-to-stay programs, which require students who were contacts of someone who tested positive for the coronavirus to regularly test, and receive negative results, to stay in the classroom.including those in Montgomery and Fairfax counties, Alexandria and D.C.
Prince George’s County schools plans to provide rapid antigen tests for symptomatic students who have signed parental consent forms when classes begin Aug. 29. It did not have a test-to-stay program in place last school year; instead, it conducted symptomatic and asymptomatic rapid antigen and PCR coronavirus testing.The new CDC guidance also places an emphasis on air filtration.
KIPP DC, the city’s largest charter network, has traditionally taken a more cautious approach to mitigating the spread of covid, as requested by most of the school system’s parents, spokesman Adam Rupe said. Often, that makes the charter network “a bit slower to make CDC changes,” he said.
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