DCPS works to craft permanent policy for handling communicable diseases

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A peculiar committee of the Duval County School Board meets connected Sept. 13, 2021.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to upend what was expected to beryllium a much “normal” schoolhouse year, an advertisement hoc committee of the Duval County School Board met Monday greeting to speech astir updating the district’s imperishable argumentation for dealing with communicable diseases.

In its existent form, the board’s argumentation successful this country is narrowly focused connected the HIV/AIDS epidemic, which was reasonably accordant with different Florida districts.

DCPS works to trade imperishable argumentation for handling communicable diseases

“As we looked astatine policies from each crossed the authorities of Florida, the communicable diseases policies that we saw hap to absorption a batch connected HIV and AIDS,” schoolhouse committee seat Elizabeth Andersen said. “I deliberation that it’s apt that we haven’t seen a pandemic with rather the aforesaid interaction oregon request to marque definite that we’ve got each of the mitigation strategies successful spot and each of the procedures and processes successful spot to instrumentality attraction of children and our unit and support them steadfast successful our district.”

The territory examined the communicable illness policies from Miami-Dade, Polk, Seminole, Leon, Hillsborough, Broward, Palm Beach, and Orange counties’ schoolhouse districts for notation connected whether and however to grow the existent policy.

A main origin successful the treatment was the information that antithetic communicable diseases are transmitted successful antithetic ways and, therefore, necessitate a assortment of strategies to mitigate their spread.

“What we’d similar to bash is get retired of that exigency rulemaking process and instrumentality a look astatine our communicable diseases argumentation and spot if we tin update it and marque definite that each of the pieces, successful giving immoderate authorization implicit to the superintendent to make those procedures, but that’s encompassed each successful 1 policy,” Andersen said.

Any changes to schoolhouse committee argumentation would person to beryllium approved by a bulk of schoolhouse committee members.