NEW YORK — New York Governor Andrew Cuomo held a press conference Tuesday providing an update in the state's battle against the COVID-19 pandemic.
With schools reopening and people back in the classrooms, Cuomo announced that each school district will be given a COVID Report Card.
The report card will be made for every K-12 school in the state and parents will be able to see how their kids' school is doing in the fight against the spread of COVID-19 in the classrooms.
Governor Cuomo said that when those reports begin to come in from districts, the report card will be online and available to access here.
Each district will be required to report the number of tests given, the type of test, and the result every day to the New York State Department of Health. All of the numbers will be posted on a the report card website for every school in the state.
Districts, local health departments, and the labs doing the tests will have to report numbers to the state for the website.
The governor says if the state sees a cluster in a school, the state will take action.
"You punch in your address, it tells you what district that your child is in, once you go to that school district, it'll tell you everything that you need to know about where that school district is with COVID, how many tests they've taken, how many they took yesterday, what the results were, who's doing the test, what's the turnaround test, turnaround on the test," Cuomo said.
It'll also say whether a student is doing fully-remote learning or learning in the classroom, so you'd know if your child might have been exposed to someone who tested positive.
Last week, Cuomo announced that the state, along with the New York State Department of Health, sent a letter to school districts informing them all school districts in New York State to report all cases of COVID-19 to a public dashboard.
This requirement will begin September 9, which is when the dashboard will be made public.