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School workers must have vaccine proof or sign up for testing by Friday.

Among those exposed to COVID-19 in CPS, only 1.6% have tested positive, officials said.

CPS is seeing about 5 cases per 1,000 people which Chicago's top doctor called not unexpected.

But the district has so far not released any enrollment numbers.

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In the last seven days, 125 student and 47 adult cases were logged, CPS says.

Unvaccinated students who travel outside of Illinois are supposed to quarantine afterwards even if they test negative.

The union didn’t elaborate but said members will resort to “escalating actions if necessary.”

“Going back to school is a way of learning to live with ... the new normal," one parent said.

Three feet of social distancing "‘where possible’ is unacceptable,” the CTU president said.

Several schools have done away with resource officers but 23 voted to retain one.

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CPS criticized a CTU idea as being about "presentation rather than substance."

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CPS's plan diverged from many suburban districts that are making masks optional.

Less than half of eligible Chicago kids have gotten a first vaccine dose.

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As Illinois school districts prepare for fully reopened classrooms in the fall, city and suburban educators are now reviewing applications for “medically vulnerable” students who hope to continue remote learning to avoid the risk of contracting COVID-19.

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CPS clerk Judy Mahoney, paralyzed by a drunken driver, said she was grateful for the support of the crowd, but she was hoping a rally wouldn’t be necessary.

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With limited attendance and less than two months of school left, CPS determined the officers "were not necessary at this time."

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The next step in opening Chicago Public Schools to in-person learning is on track to start Monday with high school students eligible to head back to classrooms for the first time since schools shut last spring. Search for your school.

“Critical sticking points" include accommodations, class schedules and and vaccines for students and families, the union said.

“My priority is getting Chicago vaccinated and making sure that if we have providers who are not performing in ways that meet our efficiency equity and general goals around vaccination, they won’t be vaccine providers for us right now, and I want to really keep the focus on making sure that we get vaccine to the parts of the city that need it most,” Arwady said. “And that’s really where our priority is and where it’s going to remain.”

“While it is understandable why CPS would need to know an employee’s vaccination status to review an application for a 4th quarter telework accommodation based upon an employee’s COVID-19 high-risk status, it would be a violation of our Framework Agreement for CPS to terminate granted accommodations prior to the conclusion of the 3rd Quarter,” according to the letter. “... For now, the Union does not have an agreement with CPS on this issue and we do not believe they can mandate disclosure until we complete negotiations. We recommend that CTU members wait to complete the disclosure survey if you believe it could negatively impact any accommodations you have been granted or requested.”

CPS CEO Janice Jackson said the goal is to have all staff members receive a vaccination by the end of March. The district hopes to bring high school students back to classrooms next month — announcing on Tuesday a “target” return date of April 19 — and is bargaining with the Chicago Teachers Union over an agreement to do so. CPS has not yet provided in-person attendance data for elementary students, who returned in three waves culminating March 8. During a news conference Wednesday, Jackson said she was not aware the data had not been released.

“COVID-19 has created unprecedented financial challenges for schools throughout the country. ... It’s never been more essential to ensure public schools — particularly those that serve high numbers of Black and Latinx students from low-income households — are equitably funded and have the resources necessary to address the unprecedented needs brought on by the pandemic,” CPS CEO Janice Jackson said in a Thursday statement.

When an official with CPS arrived and determined the residence was not suitable for the children, Dobson and Phillips said they could stay at a hotel or a friend’s house, but the CPS official “determined due to their financial situation and instability of having a home it would be best for the children to be removed.”

That means fewer than 30% of eligible CPS students have indicated they want to return to classrooms. Officials had said last month that 67,000 pre-K through eighth grade and cluster students were due to return for in-person classes, in most cases part time. District officials have deflected the decreases by noting that families have the option to select in-person learning and can always choose to stay remote if they change their minds.

That’s the schedule to which CPS and the Chicago Teachers Union agreed following a protracted fight over reopening schools that led to several delays and brought the district to a brink of a second teachers strike in less than a year and a half. But some parents both for and against reopening have said they felt their own perspectives have been lost in the talks, which will now turn to when high schools will reopen.

The Public Utility Commission of Texas has implemented a ban on utility cutoffs for consumers who don’t pay their bills. The move does not apply to cooperatives or to municipality-owned utilities like CPS in San Antonio or Austin Energy. The Public Utility Commission of Texas has implemented a ban on utility cutoffs for consumers who don't pay their bills. The move does not apply to cooperatives or to municipality-owned utilities like CPS in San Antonio or Austin Energy. The Public Utility Commission made a similar move in March due to the economic fallout of COVID-19.

And nearly three weeks after the state opened up shots to all senior citizens, a Tribune analysis of vaccination and census data shows wide variation in how many seniors have gotten shots. A handful of counties have now gotten a first shot into at least half those 65 and older, but the vast majority have not, including some where 9 in 10 seniors have yet to get a first shot.

“We’ve got to figure out a way to do this that doesn’t lead to this kind of public mass (conflict). It leaves lasting scars,” Lightfoot said Friday in an interview with the Tribune. “There’s a lot of healing that needs to be done in CPS as a result of this latest episode. Brother versus brother, sister against sister, there’s no need for that. We need not add layers of trauma, and yet that’s exactly what happened.”

The parents say they want to be recognized as stakeholders and get greater transparency from CPS. They want a renewed urgency to improving remote learning, since most students still be receiving lessons online at least part time. And group said it wants a focus on mental health and social-emotional needs, as well as improved technology and as much as a $100-per-month stipend for families who are spending more on internet service because the district-provided hotspots can be unreliable.

When she brought up the subject in an online question-and-answer session, Arwady struck a sterner tone than two weeks ago when she said the Chicago Department of Public Health canceled an unspecified number of vaccine appointments for teachers who inadvertently used a code meant for home health care workers at its mass vaccination sites. Back then, she did not assign blame because she said people were honest in indicating they were not health care workers but urged people to keep the codes to themselves.

Huey Hamilton, 53, and Shawanda Hamilton, 36, are each charged with injury to a child in connection with the beating death of Tarija Carter. The little girl died in January 2020, and it took months of investigation to determine the cause and circumstances of her death. Tarija was left with the Hamiltons by her birth mother, Rhodashinique Phillips. She said CPS decided to place Tarija and her 1-year-old sister with the Hamiltons for safety. When Phillps complained, she said her CPS caseworker told her she might lose custody if she tried to go get them.

That’s what happened to Ms. Davis, who didn’t want her full identity revealed, Sunday at 9:30 p.m. the Westpark Tollway and Grand Parkway interchange in Fort Bend County near Cinco Ranch. “It frightened him, He was crying, he was hysterical.”After stopping her vehicle, Davis and her husband grabbed the little boy and placed him inside their vehicle -- even as other cars continued to drive by at normal speeds. Davis said she is thankful she was there to help and thankful he was reunited with his mother. “Because I didn’t sleep because I was like, ‘What if they just dropped this kid off?’ I was thinking some of everything.”CPS was called to the ER where the boy was determined to be in good health. CPS released the child to the mother pending its open investigation for neglectful supervision.