EDUCATORS

Some educators in Tennessee are working overtime to help kids get to and from school.

Some educators in Tennessee are working overtime to help kids get to and from school.

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Many educators and students are hopeful for a more "normal" new school year.

Many educators and students are hopeful for a more "normal" new school year.

Future educators are calling for smaller class sizes and more classroom support.

Future educators are calling for smaller class sizes and more classroom support.

Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.

As Chicago Public Schools works through its first week of in-person learning since March, 100 educators are still considered absent without leave, meaning they have been denied pay and locked out of their Google accounts for failing to report to school buildings for an extended length of time. Some parents say CPS is effectively punishing their children by cutting off their teachers’ access to remote teaching, in some cases even though none of their students has returned for in-person classes.

“To truly make this initiative a success, CPS must value both incoming and veteran educators of color in its buildings, and make schools hospitable places to learn and grow in professional, anti-racist communities,” Davis Gates said. “The district must also be committed to collaborating with stakeholders who have been doing the work in this arena for years, and also to eradicating policies that have stripped our schools of Black and Brown educators: charter proliferation, school closings, punitive teacher evaluation and high-stakes entry programs.”

“This community really puts a lot of trust in their public educators, and we need to be sure they are given the right information, so they can make educational decisions for their children,” Esposito said. “This is a strong community and a united community, and most of them are saying, this is not the right time for anyone to be back in school buildings.”

After being convicted in a conspiracy to inflate students' test scores, former Atlanta school educators were sentenced in court Tuesday. All but one of the ten were handed jail time, ranging from one year to seven years. Jericka Duncan reports.