This evening, Chief Operations Officer Jorge Robles presented an update on our COVID-19 health data to our Board of Education. The update included a review of the key data that the district uses to assess health and safety conditions in the district and surrounding areas.

Insights from tonight’s data review include:

Foundational Health Care Metrics

• Rates have continued to decrease and we are now at levels not seen since July.
• We must continue to follow safety practices and do our part to ensure that rates go even lower to keep our students and team members safe.

Early Warning Indicators

• Case counts remain low after two full weeks of being back in in-person learning.
• Vaccines:
  • Continue to be available across the week
  • Regular emails to our team as spots become available; rescheduling any second round team members who missed their appointments
• Rapid testing:
  • Starting rapid testing screening this week and continue training designated site staff.
  • Continued to process opt ins from families and staff.

 

Foundational System Metrics

 

• We continue to monitor staffing daily across schools teams and support professionals - no meaningful changes from last week’s update.
• We continue to work on delivering additional PPE to schools based on requests, and on providing support & guidance for safety protocols.
• Support professionals
  • No changes from last week’s report on operations teams.
  • Continue to provide supports and work on recruitment
• School site staffing
  • Monitoring staffing levels daily.
  • Schools actively managing through absences/leaves.
• Substitutes
  • Needs remain consistent, and we continue to work on recruiting efforts.
  • Number of applicants have slowly started to increase but not significant increase in active subs filling requests.
• PPE & Safety equipment
  • We continue to have necessary stock of PPE supplies and we have been delivering to schools per requests.