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Rod Moyer says goodbye to his daughter, Ra'Nhi, 6, a kindergartener, outside Saucedo Scholastic Academy on March 1, 2021, as Chicago Public Schools opened to tens of thousands of kindergarten through fifth graders.

Fewer than 1/4 of CPS students eligible to return to schools have attended classes in person; high school opt-in deadline extended

March 19, 2021 at 6:49 p.m.

Since students started returning to Chicago Public Schools under an agreement with the Chicago Teachers Union in February, fewer than 24% of eligible students have attended class in person at...

Theodore Roosevelt High School in Albany Park where Chicago Public Schools opened a COVID-19 vaccination site for employees on March 17, 2021.

On the anniversary of Illinois’ coronavirus school shutdown, CPS sets goal of first vaccines for all employees by April to help ‘get us back to normal’

March 17, 2021 at 5:36 p.m.

All Chicago Public Schools employees and vendors are now eligible to get COVID-19 vaccines at sites run by the district, it announced Wednesday, the one-year anniversary of statewide school closures....

Mary Caffero (izquierda), profesora de matemáticas en la Escuela Primaria Stagg, recibe la vacuna COVID-19 de la asistente médica de Innovative Express Care, Amanda Azam, en la Chicago Vocational Career Academy, el viernes 5 de marzo de 2021.

Maestros de CPS ya son elegibles para la vacuna COVID-19

March 17, 2021 at 12:39 p.m.

Todos los empleados y proveedores de las Escuelas Públicas de Chicago (CPS) ya son elegibles para recibir la vacuna COVID-19 en los sitios administrados por el distrito, se anunció el...

CPS sets April 19 as ‘target date’ for high school reopening but teachers union says it won’t agree ‘until we know our buildings are safe’

March 16, 2021 at 8:47 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools has announced a target date to resume in-person classes for high school students, who marked one year of remote learning this week: April 19, the start of...

Chicago's Lake View High School, as it looked last April 1, just after a statewide school shutdown. High schools are the last buildings in CPS that have still have not reopened for in-person classes.

CPS high school families have a lot of questions about reopening plans. Here are some of the answers.

March 13, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

High school families in Chicago Public Schools have until March 19 to say yes or no to in-person learning, but they still don't know exactly what those options mean or...

For some Chicago teachers who want a COVID-19 vaccine before returning to school, unpaid leave is the only option

March 8, 2021 at 7:28 a.m.

When a fraction of Brady Tilghman's eighth grade students return to in-person learning Monday while the rest continue remote learning, someone else will be teaching all of them. As of...

CPS high schoolers get first chance to opt for in-person classes, while elementary students get final chance to return this spring

March 5, 2021 at 6:26 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools for the first time will ask families of high school students to decide whether they want to return to in-person learning this school year, and is giving...

CPS proposes starting classes in August, citing ‘learning loss’ from COVID-19 disruptions; district also begins union talks to bring high school students back

March 4, 2021 at 3:57 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools is asking for public comment on a proposed academic calendar for the 2021-22 school year that would have classes start a week earlier than usual. The public...

Elizabeth Greer, center, joined about two dozen protesters to rally outside City Hall on March 3, 2021, to call out Mayor Lori Lightfoot for not backing an elected school board.

Feeling betrayed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot, supporters of an elected school board for Chicago Public Schools say ‘this fight is not going to go away anytime soon’

March 3, 2021 at 4:16 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools parent Jeff Jenkins joined the fight for an elected school board when his son was in kindergarten. Now that son is a sophomore in high school and...

CPS opens its schools Monday to the most students since last March. Is it ready? Some principals say schools lack staff to resume in-person classes safely.

March 1, 2021 at 11:30 a.m.

When the first, smallest wave of students returned to Chicago Public Schools, many educators and principals said they were thankful for the phased-in reopening. It would give them time to...

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