Statewide School Dashboard to be released .

Happening today- we expect the department of public health and state board of education to release the state's school coronavirus dashboard!

Waay31's sierra phillips is live at the madison county department of public health with how it is expected to help schools keep track of coronavirus cases in their district, sierra?

This morning lead nurses are ready to go-- they already have taken orientation for this new dashboard program.

The lead nurse from morgan county schools explained that for districts that don't already have a dashboard, this one could be a big help.

Morgan county does already have one that is updated daily.

Both huntsville city and madison county schools have a dashboard as well.

The state dashboard would only be updated once a week.

One morgan county mom told us that's just not fast enough.

Y the time we're receiving the data, the information has changed, so essentially we're no longer informed."

The state dashboard would show the number of cases overall in a school district, not at specific schools.

Morgan county will continue to update their own dashboard.

Reporting live in huntsville sierra phillips waay31 news.