CPS Quarantine Policy + Self Reporting

CPS has created guidelines to help understand and aid in the decision for when someone or a pod should quarantine. You can find the CPS info guides HERE. Below, we’ll quickly summarize the procedures but please read through the CPS info guides linked above and attached to this email for more specific details.

• It is so important that any staff or student that test positive for COVD-19 to Self Report

• Parents or Legal Guardians can report for their child at cps.edu/covidresults

• This is not a requirement but it is highly suggested

• You may feel self conscious self-reporting but you shouldn’t! Reporting will help keep the rest of the community safe by allowing an opportunity to quickly isolate any additional cases and let any possible close contact know they should test and isolate.

• Once you self report, CPS has a team of Contact Tracers that will investigate and track down any close contacts to the positive case

• CLOSE CONTACT - will be a new and common word for us. The CDC defines “close contact” as anyone who’s been within six feet of a COVID-19 positive person for 15 minutes or more within a 24 hr period.

• Anyone that has been identified as a CLOSE CONTACT by the CPS Contract Tracing team will be required to quarantine for 14 days. Testing is encouraged between day 5-9 of quarantine

• A Covid positive person must ISOLATE for 10 days from start of the illness or 10 days from the date of the test if no symptoms.

• If any student is required to quarantine or isolate, they should switch to remote learning until the end of their quarantine/isolation. So on the 15th day, they can return to school.

• Reviewing the CPS info guides is extremely important as they contain very specific direction and protocol that we can’t fully cover in this email (if you’ve even gotten this far).

Travel and Quarantine

• CPS follows the City of Chicago Emergency Travel Order. You can also see these guidelines whenever you fill out the CPS Health Screener.

• Please see the new CPS Guidance on Travel for Families.

• We are not discouraging travel, we are just requesting that you please stay home for the required period of time. Students can go to remote learning during this time and return to in-person after the required stay at home time (for in-person registered students only).