![]() ![]() Joseph County are currently labeled as “not reported” this school year and at least a dozen schools in the county are described as such in the 2020-21 year.įive schools in the Penn-Harris-Madison school district appear on the state dashboard as “not reported.”ĭistrict spokeswoman Lucha Ramey said two of those schools - Elsie Rogers and Mary Frank elementaries - had not had a positive case before the dashboard’s last update and that leaders in those schools believed they did not need to submit to the state portal until their first cases.Īdministrators in three other P-H-M schools - Discovery, Prairie Vista and Schmucker - have experienced technical difficulties, Ramey said, with data not taking for some schools in the state system dating back to last school year. These apparent glitches in the state system make it difficult to understand exactly which and how many schools have failed in the first weeks of this year to meet their reporting requirement. The dashboard was last updated on Tuesday due to the Labor Day holiday. Information currently available on the dashboard includes results submitted by midnight last Friday, according to the ISDH. Multiple administrators and spokeswomen representing schools labeled as not reporting, however, told The Tribune their teams have attempted to upload information in the state’s portal as recently as last Friday. The dashboard shows 1,639 schools have reported one or more cases this school year and zero schools shared that they have no reported cases. In the weeks since the new feature was introduced, the number of schools listed as not reporting has dropped to 729, as of noon Wednesday, according to the state’s dashboard. Not reporting: State health officials say 1,200 schools have failed to share COVID-19 data this school year ![]() “We are working with the schools very closely and talking to the Department of Education about what future actions or supports could be given to schools that are doing the right thing here.” “It is difficult to know exactly what’s happening when schools are not willing to report cases,” Box said at the time. In the same press conference, she drew attention to a high number of schools - more than 1,200 - that she said had not yet reported cases to the state in the new year. Kris Box announced a new feature would be added to the dashboard allowing users to toggle between the 2020-22 school years. In a late August press conference, State Health Commissioner Dr. This school year, however, state officials say this is the tool they will use to ensure schools are meeting their requirements for mandatory communicable disease reporting for COVID-19 cases. At the time, schools’ participation in the state portal was voluntary. The state developed its school coronavirus reporting portal and public-facing dashboard last school year. "Schools are required to report confirmed cases to the local and state health departments within 24 hours," a department spokeswoman wrote in an email last week. "Schools have received information about how to report to the state portal, and we continue to communicate with schools about the need for reporting." Participation required in state dashboard The Tribune has requested multiple times in recent days to speak with a representative of the state health department about its dashboard and was asked instead to email questions. “Due to technical difficulties on today’s school dashboard, some schools had cases assigned to the wrong school year,” the message reads. The state made at least one change in its data this week.Īfter an inquiry from The Tribune on Tuesday, the state adjusted numbers and added a notice to its dashboard. Others say they have experienced technical difficulties dating back to last school year. Some say their schools have been mislabeled publicly as not reporting cases this school year when they have attempted as recently as last week to upload data. New guidance: Mishawaka, P-H-M update quarantine practices with new recommendations Representatives from South Bend, Mishawaka and Penn-Harris-Madison schools say they've experienced challenges ranging from trouble logging into the state's portal to submitted data not appearing on the public-facing dashboard. School leaders say they have run into difficulties uploading data into a state portal used to supply information to the public-facing dashboard. ![]() ![]() The dashboard, updated weekly on Mondays, shows the number of new and total cases of COVID-19 among students, teachers and staff as reported to the state. Technical difficulties have led to confusion this week among northern Indiana educators looking to upload data and inform families about coronavirus cases through the state’s COVID-19 dashboard. ![]()
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