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A syringe is loaded with Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a Cook County health center in North Riverside.

With younger teens now vaccine eligible, schools aim to be their source for COVID-19 shots: ‘Make it available in a place they already are’

May 11, 2021 at 7:04 p.m.

Determined to get COVID-19 shots in young arms before the end of the school year, several suburban Chicago school districts hope to deliver vaccines to students 12 and older at...

Final preparations are underway for the United Center COVID-19 vaccination site March 8, 2021, in Chicago.

COVID-19 vaccines for kids 12 to 15 begin at Chicago city-run sites Thursday; no appointment needed

May 11, 2021 at 5:50 p.m.

Chicago's city-operated COVID-19 vaccine sites will begin offering the Pfizer vaccine to kids 12 to 15 starting Thursday, Chicago public health officials said Tuesday while touting the two-dose shot as...

Lane Tech principal is leaving for new post in Elgin U-46

May 7, 2021 at 6:57 p.m.

The principal of Lane Tech College Prep has announced he's stepping down from the helm of Chicago's largest high school and accepting a new administrative position in the northwest suburbs....

Martha Hernandez, a dual language at Oakhill Elementary School in Streamwood, receives a certificate of achievement from Elgin District U-46 Superintendent Tony Sanders on May 6, 2021.

Burned out but hopeful: Teachers look back on the year of pandemic educating, from virtual learning to fights over reopening schools

May 9, 2021 at 12:05 p.m.

When Roberto Clemente High School English teacher Mueze Bawany received an email from Chicago Public Schools with a certificate for Teacher Appreciation Week attached, his first reaction was, "Is this...

Students arrive for class at Hancock High School, one of CPS's selective enrollment high schools, in 2015.

CPS selective enrollment high schools will nearly double the number of diverse learners next year

May 6, 2021 at 3:46 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools plans to nearly double the number of students with disabilities or functional needs attending the city's selective enrollment high schools. In addition, 89% of all high school...

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

‘Vaccine field trips’ and school shot events are among ideas for getting more Chicago students and their families inoculated

May 4, 2021 at 5:25 p.m.

The Chicago Teachers Union on Tuesday urged district officials to establish school-based COVID-19 vaccine clinics and community vaccine events for students and their families — a step the union says...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot, left, and Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson at CPS headquarters on Jan. 26, 2021.

CPS CEO Janice Jackson announces departure; Chicago schools face leadership turnover with 2 other top officials also leaving

May 3, 2021 at 5:23 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson, who rose from a CPS Head Start student to lead the district through a teachers strike and the COVID-19 shutdown, will leave her post...

Rose Menichini, 18, tries on her freshly altered red prom dress at Spring Cleaners on April 30, 2021. She's a senior at York High School and bought the dress for the 2020 prom, which was canceled due to the pandemic.

High school proms are back, sort of. Some will have no dancing, no eating, no heels — and entrance might require a negative COVID-19 test.

May 1, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

Since the arrival of COVID-19, a shiny red satin prom dress has been sequestered in 18-year-old Rose Menichini's closet, patiently awaiting its debut at the York High School prom. Now,...

Freshmen line up for screening as CPS high school students return for in-school learning at Lincoln Park High School for the time since the COVID-19 pandemic shut schools on April 19, 2021.

CPS aims to help teens get COVID-19 shots. The teachers union wants a student vaccine goal met before fall classes start.

April 30, 2021 at 6:45 p.m.

Troubled by what leaders say is a lack of a central plan, the Chicago Teachers Union wants the Board of Education to set a goal for vaccinating students 16 and...

Almost 20% of high school students in CPS absent from classes, and only 11% attending in-person instruction

April 29, 2021 at 4:12 p.m.

The joy and relief marking the long-awaited reopening of Chicago's public high schools were tempered by reality this week, with the district announcing that 1 in 5 students has been...

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