Good Afternoon:

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued updated guidance that reduces the isolation period for someone who tests positive for COVID-19.

The Dubuque County Health Department, the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH), and the CDC are all in alignment regarding this guidance.  Beginning Thursday, January 13th, our district will begin following this new isolation guidance. The guidance allows individuals to return to school after 5 days as follows:

Good afternoon:

The CDC recently came out with some new guidelines on isolation and quarantine timelines. They also updated their recommendations for isolation and quarantine for K-12 schools.

We are currently reviewing the new CDC guidance and working with state and county health departments to determine what changes we need to make to our current practices regarding self-isolation and quarantine. We don't want to make changes to our procedures too soon and then have to change them again due to new information coming out at the state or county level since the guidance is sometimes conflicting.

Good Afternoon:

On Tuesday, November 16th, the school board passed the following policy:

Effective Monday, November 22, 2021, the WDCCSD will utilize the district's COVID-19 dashboard data to determine if a temporary mask mandate should be put into effect for all employees, students, parents and visitors of a school where that building's positivity rate is 3% or higher and is expected to remain at or above that level for two or more days.