An Important Update to the PVSchools Prepared Plan

PVSchools Community,

Over the last three weeks, several favorable trends related to the COVID-19 pandemic have been observed in our schools and community.

We have observed improving trends in percent positivity, number of COVID-19 cases, student absenteeism, staff absences, and substitute fill rates.

Based on these trends, several revisions to our mitigation plan will be implemented at all of our schools and facilities, beginning Monday, February 28, 2022:

• Face masks will be opt-in only (optional) PreK-12 grade. Teachers, staff, and administrators will no longer monitor or enforce the previous opt-out parent forms.
• As per Federal order, face masks continue to be required on District transportation.
• Indoor volunteers may return at the discretion of the building principal and/or teacher.
• Notifications for positive cases will only be provided through letters to classroom families in preschool through sixth grade throughout the third quarter. County outbreak letters will be sent home school-wide at all schools.
• The District COVID-19 dashboard will continue to be updated throughout the third quarter.

All students and staff are encouraged to continue to practice healthy hand hygiene and stay home or go home when feeling sick. We will maintain our current protocols for students and staff who test positive for COVID-19.

As always, our plans remain flexible enough to respond to evolving trends. Thank you, in advance, for your cooperation and continued support of student success on the journey of excellence in PVSchools.

Sincerely,

Troy J. Bales, Ed.D.
Superintendent

An SMS message was also sent as a notification to our parents and guardians. Parents and guardians who haven’t already opted in to receive high-priority and emergency SMS messages from our mass notification system can opt in at any time by texting the word YES to 67587.