Austin school hosts free COVID-19 testing site on campus for families, community Austin school hosts free COVID-19 testing site Austin Achieve Public Schools and Houston-based Dascena Labs have teamed up to help track COVID-19 in the community. FOX 7 Austin's Carissa Lehmkuhl has details. AUSTIN, Texas - An Austin charter school and a Houston-based lab have teamed up to help track COVID-19 in the community. For the past month, Austin Achieve Public Schools has conducted testing on their northeast campus. They saw the need when they realized their proximity to zip codes with higher COVID-19 rates.
"We saw a migrating purple color on the dashboard beginning to move towards areas where our families lived, and that was a grave concern," said Ricardo Chavana, front office coordinator for the elementary school. "We thought, what can we do about this?"