This study finds that access to guidance and financial resources, community engagement, partnerships with public health, and data management and reporting tools are essential for effective school testing strategies.
- School Profiles
The Learning Network helps school and district leaders start or strengthen school COVID-19 testing and vaccination programs. Their website includes key takeaways, video clips, and resources from a series of webinars about running a school COVID-19 testing program. The website also includes an FAQ on using ESSER funding for testing and vaccination at K-12 public schools.
- Tools & School Guidance
This brief describes test-to-stay strategies implemented in North Carolina, Illinois, and Massachusetts and provides practical guidance on implementing these programs as part of a layered COVID-19 mitigation approach in k-12 schools. Preliminary evidence collected during the Delta wave shows test-to-stay can increase in-person attendance, minimize school-related disruption, increase access to testing, and address concerns regarding safety with in-person instruction.
- School Profiles
This resource explains why regular testing, in addition to vaccinations, is an effective way to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and help keep schools open. It also introduces Test to Stay, which combines contact tracing and serial testing to allow individuals exposed to COVID-19 to remain in school if they do not test positive, even if they are not fully vaccinated.
- Tools & School Guidance
The Biden administration launched this website to enable better access to vaccines, tests, treatments, masks, as well as the latest updates on COVID-19. The website includes a Test-to-Treat locator that can help people access pharmacies and community health centers to get tested and receive appropriate treatments.
- Tools & School Guidance
This slide deck explains minimum standards of program success for regular testing in schools. It describes successful examples from across the country and includes student and staff perspectives as well as lessons learned.
- School Profiles
This website consolidates existing guidance; provides resources on funding, mitigation, and transparency; and explains the science behind the state’s reopening plan.
- Tools & School Guidance
Through this website, schools districts can apply to the California K-12 School Rapid Antigen Testing Program, which provides free testing supplies, training, and software to schools to support COVID-19 testing.
- Tools & School Guidance
California encourages parents to test their children for COVID-19 as they return to school from break and to share the test results with their local health department. This website contains resources for parents, including a fact sheet with steps they should follow to conduct at-home COVID-19 testing as well as social media images and messages in English and Spanish for districts and schools to share.
- Tools & School Guidance
This webpage contains tools, templates, and step-by-step information on how to set up a school COVID-19 testing program in schools. It includes guidance on identifying testing teams, getting consent, setting up software, setting a testing schedule, and conducting contact tracing.
- Tools & School Guidance