Charter schools must be offering at least four days of in-person learning a week to qualify for the testing program. The city currently tests students every other week if their families have opted into the asymptomatic testing program. Schools will continue to provide rapid coronavirus testing to any student or staff member who displays symptoms on campus. The school system now serves around 10,000 students in person, though attendance is inconsistent and some students are attending just once a week. Current testing protocol requires the District’s health department to dispatch staff to every school once every other week to administer students’ tests.

Source: Washington Post March 08, 2021 17:17 UTC