Ill students attended Henderson charter while awaiting test results

A Henderson nationalist charter schoolhouse had 3 COVID-19 cases among students during the archetypal 2 weeks of school, immoderate of whom were sent to schoolhouse without notification by parents portion they were symptomatic and awaiting trial results.

Signature Preparatory, which began a caller twelvemonth Aug. 9, had 2 students trial affirmative during the archetypal week and 1 during the 2nd week.

Two parents — 1 caller to the schoolhouse and 1 caller to being a schoolhouse genitor — brought their children to field with symptoms connected the archetypal time of schoolhouse arsenic they were awaiting COVID-19 trial results without notifying the school, schoolhouse laminitis and Executive Director Gabe Shirey said successful an email to the Review-Journal.

They called the schoolhouse 2 days to aboriginal to pass unit that their children had tested affirmative for the illness caused by the caller coronavirus and “the schoolhouse followed (Southern Nevada Health District) guidelines perfectly,” helium said.

Signature Prep has present reinforced its unwellness argumentation “by reminding parents aggregate times of our expectations,” Shirey said.

The schoolhouse didn’t person immoderate COVID-19 cases from astir February done the extremity of past schoolhouse year, Shirey said. “Before that, it was ever minimal, seldom 1 lawsuit per month, if that,” helium said.

The Nevada State Public Charter School Authority, which oversees 67 campuses and much than 53,000 students, has reported 127 COVID-19 cases and 104 exclusions arsenic of Friday. Approximately 80 percent of the state-authorized charters run successful Southern Nevada,

Those numbers are a full since Aug. 5 and are taxable to alteration since further cases were reported implicit the play and Monday, Executive Director Rebecca Feiden said via email.

The Clark County School District besides notified parents astir affirmative COVID-19 cases past week, including an “individual” who tested affirmative astatine Foothill High School successful Henderson and astatine O’Callaghan Middle School i3 Learn Academy successful Las Vegas.

The territory does not uncover whether affirmative tests progressive students oregon unit astatine idiosyncratic schools and does not stock accusation connected quarantines retired of privateness concerns, according to Superintendent Jesus Jara.

The schoolhouse district, which has much than 308,000 students, has reported 770 COVID-19 cases since July 1.

The district’s online lawsuit tracker notes 554 cases this month. A caller schoolhouse twelvemonth began Aug. 9.

The tracker notes 13 COVID-19 cases astatine Foothill High and less than 10 astatine O’Callaghan since July 1.

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