In March, CUHSD received at-home COVID tests for students from the State of California.  The will be distributed to students and staff beginning April 11, 2022 for use prior to returning to school after Spring Break.  Each box contains 2 test kits.  If you have a positive test, we recommend a follow up PCR test at the COVID Clinic at school or your health care provider.  Then, follow the steps of the COVID Decision Tree.

 

The Federal Government is providing free COVID at-home tests available and are delivered by way of the US Post Office.  

The purpose of this data is to provide our Central Union Union School District families and staff with a transparent summary of only on-site active COVID-19 cases. An active case indicates that a student or staff member participating in on-site activities has tested positive for an active COVID-19 infection.   Individuals who test positive are excluded from participation in any in-person/on-site activity and are required to quarantine according to the protocol established by the California Public Health Department. Once the case is cleared to return, the case will be removed from active status and the dashboard will be updated.

 

The data below represents the number of number of positive confirmed cases, reported in the last 10 days, who were on campus among district students and staff by school campus.  Please note, the dashboard is not updated on weekends, non-school days, during summer school, and holidays.  In the event of a confirmed positive case, school communities are notified by their principal or district staff.

 

 

School or Location	Active Student Cases	Active Staff Cases	Portion of Population in Percentage
Central Union Adult School & Mt. Signal Virtual Academy	0	0	0
Central Union High School	0	2	0.0009
Desert Oasis & Phoenix Rising high schools	0	0	0
Southwest High School	0	1	0.0004
District Office, IT, Maintenance & Transportation	N/A	0	0

 

Updated June 1, 2022

 

On Campus COVID tests provided by COVIDClinic.org.  Tests includes students, staff and family members of students and staff not at our schools.

Week	Total number of tests in the District at the COVID Clinics	Total number of Positive Cases from these tests
Jan 3-7	1442	162
Jan 10-14	2173	318
Jan 18-21	1735	329
Jan 24-28	1391	228
Jan 31-Feb 4	1164	179
Feb 7-11	720	60
Feb 14-18	452	26
Feb 21-25	328	7
Feb 28-Mar4	225	1
Mar 7- Mar 11	404	4
Mar 14-Mar 18	361	0
Mar 21-25	391	0
Mar 28- Apr 1	340	5
Apr 4-8	288	1
Apr 11-15	237	0
Apr 18-22	16	0
Apr 25-29	309	25
May 2-6	179	9
May 9-13	165	10
May 16-20	228	17

 

No-out of pocket cost COVID-19 Testing for Students, Employees and Immediate Family

All students, faculty, staff, and contractors:

1. Visit https://school.covidclinic.org/. Click register for first test with Covid Clinic. 
2. Indicate if you are a parent/guardian, student, or staff.  ONLY SELECT STUDENT IF YOU ARE 18 YEARS OLD OR OLDER.  If you are parent of students who are under 18 select parent/guardian.  If you are both a parent AND staff, please select staff
3. Complete all the other required information, sign, and click register. 
4. If you need to register dependents, check your email for a one-time passcode, return to https://school.covidclinic.org/, and click "returning user".  After you log in with the one time passcode you can scroll down and click add dependents.

Now, anytime you need a test:

1. Just visit https://school.covidclinic.org/ 
2. Click "Returning User"
3. Request a one-time passcode. (You need this every time you request a test)
4. Log in, click Place Order to request a test, mark any symptoms (if applicable) and save.
5. Visit the on-site testing kiosk and get tested!  No appointment is required.
6. An email will follow with the test results.

Times and Locations

• Central Union High School, near the girls locker room
• Desert Oasis High School, in the parking lot near the front gate (Monday-Friday 10 AM to  3:00 PM)
• Southwest High School, near Tech 2 in the storage yard

"COVID 19 is here forever," Dr. Edwards, ECRMC CEO.  

 

We will likely deal with the illness and infection for months and years to come.  Just like other diseases, it take many years to fully understand and treat diseases.  While this unfolds, we will often have students and staff that are ill. 

 

The Imperial County Office of Education and the Imperial County Public Health Department have created a new document called the Decision Tree.  It guides us through what to do if we are feeling ill, test positive for COIVD or are exposed to a positive case.

 

 

 

 

Assembly Bill 871 that would require students to be vaccinated for COVID19 has been pulled from the legislative process for this year.  This means that for the 22-23 school year, students will not have to show proof of vaccination.  There is still the potential that it may come back for the 23-24 school year.  We continue to monitor the situation.

 

Safe Return to In Person Instruction, COVID 19 Safety Plan

Learning Continuity and Attendance Plan

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The new State required Learning Continuity and Attendance Plan will be developed by the district with stakeholder input at various meetings.  A public hearing will be conducted in September at the Board meeting and the plan approved by the Governing Board at a separate Board meeting no later than Sep 30th.  Our public hearing is Sep 15th and plan approval is Sep 29th.

A "Think Tank" of teachers, administrators and counselors have explored all options for the fall semester and developed plans for various scenarios.  The group has met many times since early May through this month.   Both the ICOE and the California Department of Education provided additional guidance in early June.  Some of these learning models are also contingent on how the state will fund schools and what will be allowable.  We will begin school with Distance Learning for All.  When conditions allow, we will have students return in small numbers.  As we progress in our recovery, we will eventually return to all students at school.  

The State is requiring schools to provide "Daily Live Interaction."  This has many formats that include, but are not limited to video conferences, phone, and interactive message boards.  Teachers will provide regular instruction and account for student participation for both attendance and grading purposes.  Students are expected to participate in the daily live instruction as if they were attending schools in-person.

• All students now have a District provided Google Gmail account; they are necessary to access the Google Classrooms. 
• The District will support teachers use of Google Classroom and Google Meet as the primary platform for learning. 
• For parents and students that need help with these tools, click here. 
• Any students needing a Chromebook or Myfi internet connection to BorderLink may contact their school to check one out.
• We will have a regular daily schedule each school day.
• Advisory Period is suspended for the year, but the time is distributed into the class periods
• Video Conference calls will follow the daily schedule.  
• A portion of the classes will be live (synchronous) each day.  Some of the classwork will be done independently (asynchronous).
• All Mondays will follow a minimum day schedule and will be Distance Learning Days for all students throughout the year or until all students are back on campus.  Click here for the new School Year Calendar.
• Counselors, Administrators and other staff will support students that are struggling or need help.
• Tutoring Services will be available online.

This routine of daily live interaction is critical to establish a pattern of learning.  This pattern will also transfer over to the blended model of learning where distance learning continues, but a group of students (about 25% per day up tp 50%  per day depending on our phase of reopening) attend classes on campus following the same schedule they have online.  This continuity of learning will help to establish the regular patterns of learning and growth.