Flat Rock-Hawcreek confirms one positive COVID-19 case, 25 quarantining

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Jana Wiersema
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Shawn Price, superintendent of the Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corp., talks about the challenges facing public schools and teachers in Indiana during an education forum in the Red Room at the Bartholomew County Public Library in Columbus, Ind., Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018. The forum covered the topic “Are Public Schools in Peril?” Price was part of a panel of public educators that discussed challenges facing the public education system in Indiana and the United States. Mike Wolanin | The Republic Mike Wolanin | The Republic

HOPE — Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corp. is reporting its first in-person, confirmed, positive case of COVID-19 from an individual at Hauser Jr./Sr. High School.

“It’s the first positive case that we’ve had of anybody here on campus, student or staff,” said Superintendent Shawn Price.

He clarified that the school corporation is not including remote learning students in its weekly posts regarding case counts.

Price said that from the single confirmed, in-person case, seven confirmed close contacts were identified across the district, and an additional 18 “potential” close contacts were asked to quarantine as well.

For more on this story, see Wednesday’s Republic.

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