(Older students attend the regional school district, below.) Foster-Glocester Fosterįoster has signed up for both school-based testing and a state testing event for its 208 elementary schools. The regional school district signed up for both ongoing school testing and a state event, with a date not yet scheduled. The district declined to host a state-run event. East ProvidenceĮast Providence’s 5,000 students will have access to school-based testing. East GreenwichĮast Greenwich Public Schools has also selected both school-based testing and a state testing event, which has not yet been scheduled. The state-operated high school is planning to do both school-based testing and have a state testing event on Feb.

CumberlandĬumberland declined to do school-based testing, but has signed up to hold a state testing event. The district, which serves more than 10,000 students, is considering doing ongoing school-based testing as well. Rhode Island’s second-largest school district, which had to revert to remote learning in the fall due to COVID cases and quarantines, has opted to have a state-run testing event on Monday and Tuesday of next week as students return to school. In-person learning is reopening on a staggered basis in Providence starting on Monday. A letter from Superintendent Harrison Peters to families says students will be tested for COVID upon return to the school. Providence, for example, is opting to test students and staff twice a month for the rest of the semester, according to RIDE. The one-time event would be administered by the state, testing all students and staff for COVID-19 once students return to in-person learning this month, while the school-based testing would involve giving a district regular allotments of the Binax tests to administer themselves. Department of Education asked school districts to sign up for either a one-time testing event, ongoing school-based testing or both. The state is using Abbott BinaxNOW rapid tests for the statewide school testing program, which is being offered to every district following a December pilot program at select schools in Providence, Central Falls and Lincoln. (WPRI) - As Rhode Island public school students begin returning to classrooms after the holiday break, a majority of districts plan to take part in a new program to test students and teachers during the school day.

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