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 is “safe” for students, it contributes significantly to community spread. Yes, the students are “safe” because they generally are asymptomatic at that age, so they don’t turn up as positive cases. But they take the virus home and spread it to their older relatives, significantly driving up community spread.
State lawmakers could face a record number of thorny political issues in the first half of 2021, including a battle over who should lead the Illinois House, decisions on billions of dollars in budget cuts and potential tax increases, and the drawing of new legislative district maps.
The machinations will take place under the cloud of the COVID-19 pandemic which continues to restrict the Illinois General Assembly’s ability to safely meet in-person and alongside efforts to pass legislation addressing racism and governmental corruption.
“It’s just shaping up as an incredibly difficult legislative session, with lots of pitfalls and land mines,” said Kent Redfield, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois Springfield. “This is going to be about as stressful a session of the General Assembly as you’ve ever seen. This is not going to be fun.”
State lawmakers could face a record number of thorny political issues in the first half of 2021, including a battle over who should lead the Illinois House, decisions on billions of dollars in budget cuts and potential tax increases, and the drawing of new legislative district maps.
The machinations will take place under the cloud of the COVID-19 pandemic which continues to restrict the Illinois General Assembly’s ability to safely meet in-person and alongside efforts to pass legislation addressing racism and governmental corruption.
“It’s just shaping up as an incredibly difficult legislative session, with lots of pitfalls and land mines,” said Kent Redfield, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois Springfield. “This is going to be about as stressful a session of the General Assembly as you’ve ever seen. This is not going to be fun.”
Nabih Elhajj s family is still in Lebanon, and that is worrisome for the 33-year-old Springfield educator.
In the months following the Aug. 4 blast that killed Elhajj s mother, Zeina Chamoun, in Beirut, he has been trying to get his brother, Elie, and his wife, and his sister, Nadine, out of the country.
A first application, under an emergency relief status, Elhajj said, was denied by U.S. immigration. A second application is currently in the works, he said. I know they re suffering. They know I m suffering, Elhajj said about being apart.
With Lebanon in economic meltdown and political freefall its prime minister resigned in the wake of the explosion that killed 204 people but is still in charge of a caretaker government Elhajj worries for his siblings well-being and safety.
Hear Sean Crawford s interview with Charlie Wheeler here.
How well have the efforts of Samuel Witwer and his 117 fellow delegates met the tests he laid out in the convention’s closing moments in the half century that’s passed since the convention’s final adjournment?
The question is especially timely now, as the citizens he cited ratified the delegates’ work 50 years ago this month, on December 15, 1970.
While hardly an unbiased observer covering Con-Con was this writer’s first major assignment as a fledgling reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times I believe the document has fared well, albeit with a handful of needed tweaks and a couple still pending.