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By Benjamin Cox on March 31, 2021 at 6:06pm 48 th District State Senator Doris Turner of Springfield announced today that her district would be receiving nearly $125 million in American Rescue Plan funding for public schools. Turner said in a press release that the money will be a big relief for schools to help at-risk students near the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. North Mac School District is set to receive $4,273,024 of the funding. At least 20% of the funding must be used t...

Naperville police investigating attempted child luring Naperville police provided a sketch of an unidentified man accused of trying to lure a child into his van Thursday afternoon. Courtesy of Naperville police   Updated 3/12/2021 2:13 PM Naperville police say they are investigating the report of an unidentified man who attempted to lure a child into his van Thursday afternoon. The 11-year-old Naperville boy was walking north in the 300 block of North Washington Street when he wa...

Updated 2/19/2021 6:42 AM Getting students back into schools for full-time instruction is an ambitious goal school administrators have been struggling with since the start of the pandemic. Several suburban superintendents weighed in this week on President Joe Bidens pledge to reopen a majority of K-8 schools for in-person learning five days a week by the end of his first 100 days in office, which is April 30. They say that while its a good idea in theory, there are practical and logistical chal...

A lack of supply has been the greatest hurdle in vaccinating educators and employees in two Naperville-area school districts, their superintendents say.

Updated 1/13/2021 5:53 AM Some suburban school districts went back to in-person learning after the winter break, and more will be doing so in the coming weeks, some with added tools such as COVID-19 testing for staffs. Students in Palatine Township Elementary District 15 and Oak Grove Elementary District 68 were back last week after a pause for all-virtual learning between Thanksgiving and winter break. Algonquin-based Community Unit District 300 restarted with a hybrid learning model Monday. �...

School districts to roll out COVID-19 saliva screenings Several suburban school districts are planning to roll out a saliva-based COVID-19 screening program in hopes of reducing the transmission of the virus among students and staff members. Unlike the tests administered at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the surveillance testing adopted by districts such as Naperville Unit District 203 and Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200 is not diagnostic but is used to detect...

Schools need to reopen with teachers, and CPS needs to actually make sure schools are safe to reopen. Both those things can be true. The challenge is that CPS just bought a bunch of air purifiers from Bed Bath and Beyond and called it a day. But good luck spotting any. That’s cute of CPS. Exactly where would they plan to find 1000 new teachers? It’s not like teachers are chomping at the bit to teach for CPS. The actual studies from epidemiologists have shown that while being back in school ...

Reopening debate fuels school board candidacies in Northwest suburbs   School board candidates from across the suburbs lined up early Monday to be among the first to file paperwork with the Cook County clerks office at Old Orchard Country Club in Mount Prospect. Rick West | Staff Photographer   Updated 12/15/2020 7:40 PM Amid the heated debates in recent months over school reopenings, some Northwest suburban school districts are seeing larger-than-usual fields of candidates who ...