What we know about how schools collect COVID data and make quarantine decisions
The NOLA Public Schools district recently criticized a state policy loosening school quarantine guidelines for unvaccinated contacts.
Category: Coronavirus
COVID-19 cases decline in NOLA Public Schools for a second week
The decline follows a small uptick in cases after Hurricane Ida.
Active cases drop in NOLA Public Schools as city sees lower COVID-19 numbers
Despite the recent encouraging data from the district, the 2021-2022 case count among staff and students is already higher than all of last school year’s, likely due in large part to the highly infectious delta variant.
New Orleans school district comes out against state policy shift on school quarantines
If districts opt in, the policy would allow close contacts to remain in class without a quarantine. NOLA Public Schools district indicated they will not adopt the policy.
NOLA Public Schools delays employee COVID-19 vaccine mandate after Hurricane Ida
Officials are giving employees more time to report their vaccine status.
NOLA Public Schools tracking 99 COVID-19 cases, 62 quarantining
Most cases are connected to K-8 schools.
In first post-Ida data release, NOLA Public Schools reports 33 COVID-19 cases
Many schools required a negative COVID-19 test to return to the classroom.
NOLA Public Schools students scramble to get COVID tests before return to class
Some city schools are requiring negative tests before students can come back.
Federal vaccine mandate won’t extend to Louisiana’s local and state employees, including school district employees
Some public employees are covered under various state and local mandates and some large charter groups could fall under the federal mandate as private employers.
Gatherings, evacuations during and after Ida worry epidemiologists as COVID delta surge continues
State shelters are performing COVID tests. But testing is currently scarce in the city.
