Covid-19 Reopening Information
- COVID-19 School Reopening Information
- COVID-19 Communication Procedures
- Covid-19 Testing Consent Form / Formulario de consentimiento para pruebas de Covid-19
- Daily Health Screening for Staff and Students
- Micro-Cluster Action Initiative/COVID-19 Testing
- Quarantine and Isolation: What's the difference?
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Remote Learning, Testing & Contact Tracing
- WPCSD Reopening Committee Meetings
- WPCSD Reopening Communication
- WPCSD Superintendent's Facebook Live Sessions
- White Plains Public Schools
- Remote Learning, Testing & Contact Tracing
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Remote Learning
For information related to the White Plains City School District remote learning plan, please review Section 4.0 of the WPCSD DRAFT/Working COVID-19 Reopening Plan.
Please see the information regarding sample schedules below:
Rochambeau Alternative High School
COVID-19 Testing
Please note, the White Plains City School District (WPCSD) is not equipped to conduct COVID-19 testing in the event of a large-scale outbreak. We have a standing relationship with the Westchester County Department of Health (DOH), and in the event that testing is required, we will defer to the Westchester County DOH for any required or relevant information. Additional Testing information is available HERE.
Testing is readily available in our community. Students, staff or visitors requiring COVID-19 testing should contact their health provider, a local urgent care, federally qualified health center or visit the NYSDOH website to locate a nearby testing facility https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/find-test-site-near-you.
Contact Tracing
The White Plains City School District will notify the state and local health department immediately upon being informed of any positive COVID-19 diagnostic test result by an individual within school facilities or on school grounds, including students, faculty, staff, and visitors of the WPCSD. 2.05
To assist the local health department with tracing the transmission of COVID-19, the WPCSD has developed and maintained a plan to trace all contacts of exposed individuals in accordance with protocols, training, and tools provided through the New York State Contact Tracing Program.
Districts may assist with contact tracing by:
- Keeping accurate attendance records of students and staff members
- Ensuring student schedules are up to date
- Keeping a visitor log that includes date and time address and phone number, and where in the school they visited
- Assisting the local health departments in tracing all contacts of the individual in accordance with the protocol, training, and tools provided through the NYS Contact Tracing Program
- Informing local health department of staff member testing positive regardless of county of residence.
- For all contact tracing, the DOH will require the name, address, and phone number as well as the name and phone number of the guardian of a student.
If/when COVID-19 cases are discovered, in consultation with the local health department the WPCSD will do the following:
- Close or quarantine locations of potential exposure for 24 hours, if possible
- Clean and disinfect locations as necessary
- Provide DOH with information as required
Confidentiality must be maintained as required by federal and state laws and regulations. Staff should not try to determine who is to be excluded without guidance and direction from the local health department.
For more information about how COVID-19 containment efforts will be communicated to students, families and staff members, visit the Communication/Family and Community Engagement section of our reopening plan.
