Mayor Bowser and DCPS Remind Families to Take and Submit COVID-19 Tests Before Returning to School

Washington, DC – At this time, Mayor Muriel Bowser and DC Public Colleges (DCPS) Chancellor Lewis Ferebee reminded DCPS households that every one college students and employees might want to present proof of a destructive COVID-19 check consequence earlier than the beginning of the 2022-2023 College 12 months. DCPS Ok-12 households should administer their scholar’s check and add their check outcomes to DCPSstrong.com/testing on Sunday, August 28. Pre-Ok households should administer their scholar’s check and add their check outcomes on Wednesday, August 31.

“We’re excited to welcome our college students, households, and employees again to highschool for this critically essential college 12 months,” mentioned Mayor Bowser. “A robust college 12 months begins with a powerful first day, and we are grateful to households for as soon as once more serving to us guarantee a protected and wholesome return to highschool.” 

This month, the Workplace of the State Superintendent for Training (OSSE) additionally distributed antigen assessments kits to all public constitution native training businesses (LEAs) within the District to facilitate participation in check to return. Every LEA obtained sufficient assessments for each scholar, instructor, and employees member.

To start out the varsity 12 months sturdy, DCPS households might want to:

1. Choose up a speedy antigen check from a District COVID Middle, DCPS college, or a Check Your self Specific pickup website. 
2. Exams can be found at each DCPS college as we speak, Thursday, August 25, and Friday, August 26 with the next schedule: 
   1. Thursday, August 25 from 12 pm to five:30 pm.
   2. Friday, August 26 from 9 am to 2 pm.
3. DCPS households should decide up their check kits from the varsity their youngster attends. Households with college students who attend a number of colleges could decide up check kits for all their enrolled college students at one college.
4. Check your youngster the day previous to your scholar’s first day of college. 
5. Add your scholar’s outcomes to DCPSstrong.com/testing the day previous to your scholar’s first day of college 

DCPS households could select to make the most of their very own antigen or PCR check outcomes, however assessments administered earlier than Sunday, August 28 for Ok-12 college students and earlier than Wednesday, August 31 for Pre-Ok college students won’t be accepted.

DCPS households ought to report their youngster’s outcomes by:

1. Visiting DCPSstrong.com/testing
2. Getting into your scholar’s identify, deal with, a contact e mail, a contact cellphone quantity, their college, the date of their check, and their check outcomes
3. Importing a photograph or PDF of your outcomes

“Our dedication at DC Public Colleges is to foster a protected surroundings for our college students to study, develop and thrive,” mentioned Chancellor Ferebee. “We admire the partnership of our households and employees in taking this essential step as all of us work collectively to begin the varsity 12 months sturdy.”

Replace and Submit Your Immunization Information
District regulation requires college students in all DC colleges together with non-public, parochial, and unbiased colleges, to be absolutely compliant with required vaccinations to attend college, and that colleges confirm immunization certification for all college students as a part of enrollment and attendance. Households can obtain the Common Well being Certificates and the DC Oral Well being Evaluation Kind right here.

The Coronavirus Immunization of College College students and Early Childhood Employees Modification Act of 2021, which the Council handed in 2021, requires college students ages 12 and older to be vaccinated in opposition to COVID-19 with a view to attend college. Households can entry free vaccinations at a neighborhood COVID Middle. Discover a schedule at coronavirus.dc.gov/COVIDCenters.

The perfect place for DC households to entry required childhood immunizations is thru their main medical supplier. Nevertheless, DC Well being and its companions are additionally providing particular vaccination alternatives throughout the District. These embrace:

• Quick-track, vaccination-only clinics at Mary’s Middle, Unity Well being Care, and Youngsters’s Nationwide Medical Middle clinics
• DC Well being Cell Clinics

For the most recent schedules and places of those clinics, in addition to pediatric clinic places, go to dchealth.dc.gov/immunizations.

To study extra, please go to DCPSstrong.com.

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