"We have the opportunity for more targeted contact tracing," Hyde Park Superintendent Aviva Kafka said at a school board meeting Thursday. " A few weeks ago, the consensus was we should continue with the approach we've been using, since our approach was so successful ... over the past few weeks we are hearing from folks they are rethinking that."
She said the plan, approved by the Dutchess County Department of Behavioral and Community Health and to be implemented after spring break, calls for quarantining students only when one of them comes within a six-foot radius of an individual who tested positive, rather than everyone in a given room or building.