Many districts across the U.S. are taking a wait-and-see approach to school closures as the Delta variant continues to spread. “There’s no magic number.”
amid rising cases and hospitalizations, many haven’t developed formal contingency plans that lay out what it will take for them to close a school or quarantine students. Officials say they are wary of setting benchmarks that may repeatedly change as they did last year. The contingency plans, or lack thereof, have some parents clamoring for more transparency while others advocate for schools to remain open as much as possible.
School and health officials in a range of cities including San Francisco, Dallas and Miami said they would make decisions to quarantine or close schools“There’s no magic number,” said Jennifer Finley, the health services director at Dallas Independent School District. Ms. Finley said a host of issues, including staffing flexibility across the district’s 230 schools, make it difficult to settle on a predetermined scenario that would trigger a closure.
Nationwide, officials said they would be weighing factors such as infection and vaccination rates, the guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and their local health department’s guidance.
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