Testing will take place next week. Students in grade 3rd-6th grade will take the Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR). There will be 3 ELA and 3 Math Assessments. All students will be testing on Tuesday, March 8th, Wednesday, March 9th & Thursday, March 10th. Any student who misses a session will be required to make it up upon their return. Make-ups will begin Friday, March 11th. If you have any questions regarding IAR, please contact Mrs. Green at greenl@ccsd15.net

The District is maintaining the following mitigations:

• Promoting hand hygiene;
  

• Continuing enhanced cleaning and disinfecting protocols;
  

• Continuing SHIELD testing for those that chose to opt-in; and
  

• Isolating positive cases for 5 days at home with masking for an additional 5 days upon return to school. Isolation will be 10 days if the positive individual does not want to wear a mask for days 6-10.

The District has modified the following mitigations:

• Recommended, but not required masking in school & on the bus
  

• Maintaining social distancing to the greatest extent possible;
  

• Requiring all students to stay home until they are free of symptoms (fever, vomit, and/or diarrhea) for 24 hours without medication (per the student handbook);
  

• Sharing vaccination information on the District’s website;
  

• Continuing with the use bell covers for instruments; specialized masks are recommended, but not required during rehearsal; and
  

• Choir and general music students will be “singing outward” vs. facing each other while maintaining the greatest amount of social distancing possible.

The Board of Education made decisions on the following mitigations:

• Contact tracing: The District will remove contact tracing as a mitigation effort due to the inability to properly contact trace with individuals in a mixed mask environment. Removing contract tracing also removes individuals being excluded from school based on close contacts. Moving forward, a letter will be sent to a classroom if there is a positive case in the class. This practice is similar to what the District does if there are other serious illnesses in a classroom. We will continue to provide a similar notice if there is a positive case on a bus. Staff will receive an email at the end of each day indicating how many student and staff cases the building had that day.

• Test To Stay: With the removal of contact tracing, there is no longer a need for the Test To Stay protocol to be used.

• Vaccination for Staff: The District has removed the weekly testing requirements for unvaccinated staff.

Additional information:

• District 15 continues to ask individuals to stay home when they are sick or symptomatic. Per the student handbook (pg. 49-50), students need to stay home until they are free of symptoms (fever, vomit, and/or diarrhea) for 24 hours without medication.
  

• Please keep in mind that these could be COVID symptoms and we strongly recommend you consider getting a PCR test before returning to school. COVID-19 symptoms include: fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, diarrhea as identified by the Illinois Department of Public Health.
  

• Students who test positive for COVID-19 will continue to receive concurrent learning while they are out of school. Students who are home with symptoms, awaiting a test, or home with any other illness will not receive concurrent learning.
  

• Information about local vaccination opportunities will continue to be available on our website for those interested.
  

• Families of students with IEPs or 504s should contact their Assistant Principal (504) or Special Education Coordinator (IEP) if they have any questions or concerns.
  

To view the COVID mitigation plan, click here.

ORCHESTRA Concert will take place on Thursday, May 12th at 7:00 pm at CLA.

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