District 203 backs decision to begin hybrid learning next month Naperville North High School students are expected to return to school in a hybrid learning model next month. Daily Herald file photo
Posted12/29/2020 5:20 AM
Weighing the risks of the COVID-19 virus with the potential impact of keeping schools closed has been a balancing act for Naperville Unit District 203.
Administrators say they have relied on the DuPage County Health Department, among other agencies, to help guide their decisions to date, landing the district in an enhanced e-learning phase roughly 10 months into the pandemic. But with local metrics and positivity rates trending in the right direction, Superintendent Dan Bridges said, the district is on track to transition next month into the third stage of its Return to Learn plan: hybrid learning.
Darien's Rate Of Increase In Virus Cases Stabilizes: County - Darien, IL - The town sees one more coronavirus-related death in the last week, health department says.
Updated 12/22/2020 9:21 AM
COVID-19 infections dropped again Monday with 4,699 new cases, the lowest since late October, as health departments and hospitals prepare for 174,000 doses of Moderna Inc. s recently approved vaccine to arrive Wednesday and Thursday.
So far, 63,000 Illinois health care workers outside Chicago have received their first doses of the two-shot vaccine. Chicago keeps a separate count.
And 60,450 more doses of the Pfizer vaccine should be delivered Tuesday and Wednesday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker s office announced.
The Illinois Department of Public Health also reported 98 more deaths from the respiratory disease.
Typically, new case tallies are lower on Mondays because of delayed reporting over the weekend.
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First demographic report on Illinois Muslims is underway Dilara Sayeed
Updated 12/20/2020 8:09 AM
The first comprehensive demographic report on Illinois Muslims is underway and initial findings are expected to be completed by fall 2021.
The Illinois Muslim Civic Coalition is partnering with the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding and the University of Illinois Chicago to produce the report, which will provide a detailed portrait of Muslims statewide.
It s to develop a much needed evidence-based needs, opportunities and demographics assessment of a diverse community that is often invisible, misunderstood and inaccurately portrayed, said Dilara Sayeed, president and co-founder of the Illinois Muslim Civic Coalition and a former Naperville Unit District 203 teacher. Illinois is home to one of the largest populations of Muslims in America. They are Black, because Nation of Islam has roots here.