With the school district’s most broad-based testing program repealed, the school district said Thursday that students and staff would be “expected to self-report” if they test positive for COVID-19. Instead of contact tracing, the district says it will offer emails to notify classmates and teachers of exposure.
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Ketchikan’s school board is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a proposal that would roll back nearly all of the district’s COVID-19 precautions — and allow students who test positive but don’t have symptoms to attend school unmasked.
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Under the new rules, masks will be optional at Ketchikan schools when fewer than 50 COVID-19 cases are active in the community. The change comes as cases and hospitalizations are near record levels, straining some medical resources.
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Medical experts are slated to weigh in on changes to Ketchikan’s school district’s anti-COVID-19 policies at a special school board meeting scheduled for Wednesday.
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“We wrote a new board policy … in order to address our responsibility to meet in government-to-government consultation with the Alaska Native governments, the sovereign nations that are here in Ketchikan,” the school board’s Paul Robbins Jr. said.
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Board Member Paul Robbins Jr. encouraged community members to apply, saying “it’s not difficult” to be a board member.
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Ketchikan’s school board ratified the lump sum payment — equal to 130 days of pay and benefits — at its regular meeting Wednesday. The board also approved a budget for next school year and discussed the search for an interim superintendent.
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Most of Ketchikan’s secondary school classrooms will remain half-full for another week as the area’s pandemic risk level remains elevated. But some school board members pushed to fully reopen schools despite emergency officials’ advice.
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