The current threshold to gauge transmission is 10 cases in a classroom or sports team, though officials said that number could be revisited as the pandemic evolves. “The ask of the principal remains the same as it has been since January.” “There is a citywide shift away from universal contact tracing, but all of the same alerts and systems are in place in our schools,” he said. City Hall recently lifted mask mandates in schools, with the exception of children 5 or younger. “This is the way they’re doing it and putting it on us.”ĭOE spokesman Nathaniel Styer denied any changes in Situation Room procedures. “We feel they want to decrease the staff in the Situation Room,” he added, referring to the team of DOE and health officials who oversee COVID cases in schools. Brittany Murray/The Orange County Register via AP School administrators argue the city Health Department is forcing them to do extra work on monitoring COVID-19 cases. “The kids come back to school and you don’t know if they tested or what the results were.” The city Health Department will mandate principals to give out COVID-19 tests to students who test positive. “It’s the honor system at this point,” the principal said. The Kings County principal said the new directive, which went into effect March 14, confused him and several colleagues. “I didn’t realize that epidemiology was part of my principal’s duties,” said a Brooklyn administrator, who asked not to be named without DOE permission to speak. The superintendent’s office can help assess “what may be causing the increase in transmission” and consult the Office of School Health “to minimize further transmission.” If there’s a breakout of multiple cases in classrooms or on sports teams, the memo says, principals should distribute COVID-19 home test kits to students who have been exposed. The city Department of Education memo to principals comes as the new Omicron subvariant, BA.2 sparks fears of a possible surge. Multiple COVID-19 cases in New York City public schools will no longer trigger “epidemiological assessments” by the health department, according to an internal memo obtained by The Post. Parents and the left are in an all-out war, and the kids are collateral damageĮx-principal gets $187K DOE gig despite ‘pattern of dishonesty’

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