Testing Impact in Action – Baltimore City Public Schoolsīaltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) has been a leader in leveraging breakthroughs in Covid-19 testing technology to help reopen K-12 schools. We are pleased to support the Consortium to ensure that public schools in the area have access to Covid-19 tests, giving schools with limited resources an equal opportunity to keep students, staff, and families safe.” “Baltimore City Public Schools serves as a model for how other school districts in the Washington-Baltimore corridor can leverage the Consortium testing program to safely reopen America’s schools. Shah, President of The Rockefeller Foundation. “Widespread, regular Covid-19 testing remains critical to safely reopening schools, but standing up a program is challenging for many school districts with limited resources,” said Dr. 95% test positivity rate – well below the 5.6% positivity rate in Baltimore City overall – while increasing confidence among teachers, parents, and students to return to the classroom. Initial results of the weekly asymptomatic testing program in use in City Schools have found a. The grant from The Rockefeller Foundation will support the Consortium testing program in Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) and DC Public Charter Schools.
Developed by scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, this innovative, but easy-to-implement saliva-based Covid-19 testing program, led by a coalition of Consortium universities, has been up and running in all 26 high schools in the Baltimore City Public Schools system since March 15. Washington, DC | Ap– The Rockefeller Foundation announces a $1.49 million grant to the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area to expand access to rapid-result Covid-19 testing to support K-12 schools reopening in Washington, D.C.
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