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We also evaluated a simultaneous school closure strategy where all schools in the community were closed simultaneously, using a similar community activation trigger.
To determine whether simultaneous school start time changes (delay for some schools; advance for others) impact adolescents' sleep.
The school closure interventions modelled were individual school closure and simultaneous school closure strategies.
The comparative effectiveness of both individual school closure and simultaneous school closure interventions are given in Table 2. Our simulation results suggest that simultaneous school closure is more effective if it is perfectly timed.
The results also suggest that an individual school closure strategy would be more effective than simultaneous school closure.
The effectiveness of individual school closure and simultaneous school closure were analyzed for 2, 4 and 8 weeks closure duration, with a daily diagnosed case based intervention activation trigger scheme.
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However, instead of relying on volunteers [ 22], we partnered with the schools and had homeroom teachers conduct the assessment, which allowed for simultaneous, school-wide evaluations.
Although our original intent in the study was to investigate differences between schools, this was not possible because of the lack of simultaneous school-site measurements and observed similarities in exposure levels among all schools.
We found that a policy of allowing schools to close individually was much less sensitive to the precise timing of the intervention than a policy of simultaneous community-wide school closure, a valuable observation given the difficulty in determining the true degree of epidemic spread in the early stages of an outbreak.
School groups were galvanised into action and, after simultaneous strikes at three schools and convincing indicative strike ballots at others, many have been kept in the maintained sector.
Chicago's education leaders cited poor student performances and low enrollments in what was then the largest simultaneous closing for any school district in the nation.
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