Paid Advertisement Sutter County Schools UPDATE Superintendent Tom Reusser Sutter County Superintendent of Schools On July 17, 2020, Governor Newsom announced new statewide requirements that public and private schools shall be closed to in-person instruction in counties that are on the states COVID-19 monitoring list. Below is more information: School Reopening Requirements: Schools in counties that are on the state's monitoring list can only provide distance leaming when beginning the school year and cannot open for in-person instruction until the county has been removed from that monitoring list for 14 consecutive days. A map of county status can be found here: https://covid19.ca.gov/ roadmap-counties/ More detail about the new reopening requirements can be found here: https://covid19.ca.gov/roadmap-counties/ Local Education Agencies in counties that are not on the monitoring list retain discretion to begin the school year in accordance with the instructional models laid out in S8 98 (in-person, distance learning, or hybrid). County monitoring criteria: The State's guidance for school reopening corsiders the same criteria used by CDPH in determining county closure, including things like: Positivity rate, Transmission rates, Hospital Capacity, ICU capacity, Ventilator availability More detail on CDPH county monitoring can be found here: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/OVID-19/ CountyMonitoringDataStep1.aspa County data monitoring can be found here: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/ COVID19CountyDataTable aspx When to Close? The new guidance recommends that a school consult with their public health official first and create a tiered structure for when a dassroom, school, or district should shut down in-person instruction in the event a student or staff person tests positive for COVID-19. The following applies: A dassroom cohort must stop in-person instruction if there is a confirmed case within the cohort a school must stop in-person instruction if multiple cohorts within the school have confirmed cases or once more than 5% of the school's population has tested positive A school district must stop in-person instruction if 25% of their schools are dosed within a 14-day period under the guidance, schools may typically reopen after 14 days and the following have occurred: Cleaning and disinfection, Public health investigation consultation with the local public health department a district may typically reopen after 14 days, in consultation with the local health department. Paid for by Sutter Co. Supt. of Schools Paid Advertisement Sutter County Schools UPDATE Superintendent Tom Reusser Sutter County Superintendent of Schools On July 17, 2020, Governor Newsom announced new statewide requirements that public and private schools shall be closed to in-person instruction in counties that are on the states COVID-19 monitoring list. Below is more information: School Reopening Requirements: Schools in counties that are on the state's monitoring list can only provide distance leaming when beginning the school year and cannot open for in-person instruction until the county has been removed from that monitoring list for 14 consecutive days. A map of county status can be found here: https://covid19.ca.gov/ roadmap-counties/ More detail about the new reopening requirements can be found here: https://covid19.ca.gov/roadmap-counties/ Local Education Agencies in counties that are not on the monitoring list retain discretion to begin the school year in accordance with the instructional models laid out in S8 98 (in-person, distance learning, or hybrid). County monitoring criteria: The State's guidance for school reopening corsiders the same criteria used by CDPH in determining county closure, including things like: Positivity rate, Transmission rates, Hospital Capacity, ICU capacity, Ventilator availability More detail on CDPH county monitoring can be found here: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/OVID-19/ CountyMonitoringDataStep1.aspa County data monitoring can be found here: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/ COVID19CountyDataTable aspx When to Close? The new guidance recommends that a school consult with their public health official first and create a tiered structure for when a dassroom, school, or district should shut down in-person instruction in the event a student or staff person tests positive for COVID-19. The following applies: A dassroom cohort must stop in-person instruction if there is a confirmed case within the cohort a school must stop in-person instruction if multiple cohorts within the school have confirmed cases or once more than 5% of the school's population has tested positive A school district must stop in-person instruction if 25% of their schools are dosed within a 14-day period under the guidance, schools may typically reopen after 14 days and the following have occurred: Cleaning and disinfection, Public health investigation consultation with the local public health department a district may typically reopen after 14 days, in consultation with the local health department. Paid for by Sutter Co. 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