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U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona speaks at Walter R. Sundling Junior High School in Palatine, Sept. 21, 2021. Cardona is on a tour of U.S. schools, celebrating the full return of in-person classroom this fall.

Pritzker defends vaccine and testing policy for educators during visit from U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona

September 21, 2021 at 5:38 p.m.

A behemoth purple tour bus carrying U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona rolled into suburban Chicago Tuesday morning promoting a not-so-subtle message: Students across the U.S. are back in the...

Benet Academy students, alumni rally in support of girls lacrosse coach they say lost job offer for being married to a woman

September 20, 2021 at 6:04 p.m.

Students and alumni at a private Catholic high school in DuPage County rallied Monday in defense of a girls lacrosse coach they say allegedly lost her position after officials learned...

Students from Eric Solorio Academy High School and Irene Hernandez Middle School for the Advancement of the Sciences arrive for the first day of classes on Aug. 30, 2021.

As COVID-19 school outbreaks in Illinois climb, overall childhood virus cases fall, but questions arise about the data

September 17, 2021 at 7:16 p.m.

Illinois families struggling to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic received good news and bad news Friday, with the state health department reporting the number of childhood virus cases appearing to decline...

Seminole County Schools say "devious lick" TikTok trend has led to students trashing school bathrooms and stealing school property.

TikTok challenge leads to ransacking of suburban Chicago school bathrooms

September 17, 2021 at 6:51 p.m.

The so-called devious lick TikTok bathroom challenge that has lured teens nationwide to wreak havoc on school restrooms has arrived in suburban Chicago districts, where officials are warning the latrine...

Noble Charter school teacher Robert Seymour fills a testing vial with saliva as the school conducts COVID testing on staff on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021.

Most Illinois schools have not yet started COVID-19 saliva SHIELD testing. Here’s why.

September 16, 2021 at 4:20 p.m.

Most Illinois schools have not yet started weekly COVID-19 saliva testing despite being several weeks into the school year — a situation that officials blame on the logistics of getting...

With school year underway, COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations rising for Illinois kids

September 13, 2021 at 9:02 a.m.

Newly released federal and state data shows COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations climbing among Illinois children, along with outbreaks tied to schools, as the state tries to balance limiting the virus's...

The Illinois Math and Science Academy, a residential high school in Aurora, is prohibiting students from visiting home on the weekends to prevent the spread of COVID-19 on campus.

Illinois Math and Science Academy halts student visits home to prevent COVID-19 spread

September 9, 2021 at 6:06 p.m.

Illinois Math and Science Academy is temporarily prohibiting students from visiting home on the weekends to prevent the spread of COVID-19 on campus. While the roughly 650 students in grades...

Students arrive for the first day of school in Chicago on Monday, Aug. 30.

COVID-19 outbreaks in Illinois schools triple since last week, but some take issue with the state’s new definition of an outbreak

September 3, 2021 at 5:53 p.m.

Illinois reported 81 COVID-19 outbreaks in schools Friday — more than triple the number from the previous week and spiking exponentially just weeks after students began returning to full-time in-person...

Jaime Gusanas, a third grade teacher, hands out lunch items to students in her class at Pleasant Hill Elementary in Palatine on Aug. 31, 2021.

Chicago-area school lunch programs hit by food shortages, delivery woes

September 3, 2021 at 9:43 a.m.

When nearly 12,000 students returned to Palatine School District 15 last month, they found a popular item missing from the school lunch menu: emoji chicken patty. Pandemic supply chain issues...

Christian Liberty Academy on Aug. 31, 2021, in Arlington Heights. The private school has been added to the list of Illinois schools the state has found to be noncompliant with Gov. J.B. Pritzker's school mask mandate.

COVID-19 outbreaks reported at 26 Illinois schools, weeks after start of new school year

September 1, 2021 at 3:23 p.m.

More than two dozen Illinois schools are reporting COVID-19 outbreaks, weeks after students returned to the classroom for in-person learning at fully reopened schools. The Illinois Department of Public Health...

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