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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]VDOE already released guidance that says that schools should look at in-school mitigation and spread measures also. FCPS already has a measure of those (at the January RTS meeting it was at "yellow"). A matrix of in-school spread metrics and community spread metrics determine who should be back for schools. So with FCPS's yellow metric for in-school + red metric for community spread, it would leave "priority learners" in school. I think VDOE defined that as severe SPED, ESOL, and K-3, but I am not certain.

VDOE guidance isn't based on fudging it, but on the many school districts in the US and abroad that have proven that schools can be islands of low/no spread (see the study out of NC, for example) even when community spread is high.[/quote]

Yes, here is a link to the LCPS briefing from the school staff. https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/loudoun/Board.nsf/files/BXHUQD796871/$file/012621_Hybrid%20Implementation%20Update.pdf

It outlines the metrics for safety mitigation, which was a prior concern for several board members. They were hearing from teachers several months back that the mitigation measures were not being implemented consistently. The county was apparently tracking it and the mitigation measures were being implemented 90+ percent of the time (which you can see in the briefing). Given the new VDOE guidance that advises school districts to consider these measures, as well as the vaccine pod that is going so well, the school staff is now behind returning K-5 to hybrid by mid-Feb and the upper grades by early Mar.[/quote]

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