BOSTON (WHDH) – The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has released its weekly report detailing the number of positive COVID-19 cases reported to the agency by school districts, collaboratives, and approved special education schools. The data only represents what has been reported to DESE.
The number of reported positive cases for students excludes students learning in fully remote models and only lists those who are learning in-person learning.
The number of reported positive staff cases only includes staffers who have been in a district building within 7 days prior to the report of the positive case and excludes staffers who have not been in district buildings during the 7 days prior to the report of the positive case.
The results reported on May 20 include 377 total COVID-19 total cases among students and 30 total cases among staff.
There were 372 in-person learning students with positive cases between May 13 and May 19.
There were 29 district staff members with reported positive cases and district building access between May 13 and May 19.
There were two education collaborative student cases between May 13 and May 19.
There was one case among education collaborative staffers with building access between May 13 and May 19.
There were three approved special education school student cases between May 13 and May 19.
There were zero cases among approved special education staffers building access between May 13 and May 19.
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