COVID at Osborn Elementary, Notifications Happening Saturday

Saturday morning the Rye School District said there was a case of COVID at Osborn Elementary School. Those impacted are being notified today.

From: RCSD Communications
Date: Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 9:11 AM
Subject: A Message from the Superintendent
To: Rye City School District Recipients

Dear Osborn Families, Faculty and Staff,

The District was informed late last evening that an individual at Osborn School has tested positive for COVID-19. The individual is currently in quarantine and was last at the school on Tuesday, November 17. Due to federal health privacy laws, additional information about the individual cannot be released.

We are working closely with the Westchester County Department of Health and, as always, the safety of our students and staff is our highest priority. The District is contacting the families of students and faculty and staff who will need to quarantine via both phone and email. If you do not receive a call and an email from the District, this means that based on the guidance received from the Department of Health, your student or you as a faculty or staff member did not meet their criteria for quarantine. We will send a follow up email to the community when we have completed contacting all of the impacted individuals. The Department of Health will also be conducting contact tracing for this case using contact information provided by the District; however, we understand that their call backlog is significant and those calls may not come today.

For more information about the WCDOH protocols for handling COVID-19 issues, please see their FAQ (HERE) and the NYSDOH guidance for COVID-19 decision-making (COVID-19 Toolkit).

Please be assured that we will continue to do everything in our power to keep the Osborn community safe.

Sincerely,

Eric Byrne, Ed.D.

Superintendent of Schools