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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Weekly? Or even bi-weekly?

This is what the private schools are doing and it's working. DCPS can take a portion of the $1.8 BILLION they were just given to hire a company to conduct tests on site (of which there are many). They split up the testing throughout the week so it's not the entire school on any given day.  Teachers would have designated times where they release those kids for testing during the day and they're back in the classroom 10 minutes later. This would be a huge step towards identifying cases. Testing "10-20 percent" barely scratches the surface of what's going through the schools. So why aren't they doing this? And how can we pressure them to make this happen? [/quote]

There are estimates that testing costs $33 per individual. Quick math of 50,000 students and 35 weeks of school is about 59-60 million per year for testing all students weekly. [/quote]

I don't know where your estimate comes from, but let's say that's true. If they cut this to bi-weekly you're at $30 million out of $1.8 billion. If community spread rises you move to weekly. This is LITERALLY what the money is for. [/quote]

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