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Sun-Times/Ashlee Rezin Garcia Chicago Public Schools is taking its biggest step toward a return to normalcy Monday, a full 349 days after the pandemic closed schools and upended education as families and educators knew it. But school, for the foreseeable future, will still look nearly unrecognizable. The vast majority of the 421 elementary and middle schools welcoming students back over the next week — more than 92% — will be less than half full, and 42% will be less than a quarter full. Teachers across the city are expecting single-digit students per class, including some with no childre...

The final five names for the new Marblehead school are ... The public is being asked to weigh in on the choices And then there were five.  School Committee members each offered up their choice of a name for the new elementary school along with a supporting reason. And here they are. Name: The Joseph Story Elementary School Chosen by:  Sarah Gold, chairman Why: “I think the school needs to create its own story and that is why my recommendation is going to be for the Joseph Story School,” Gold said.  Gold described Story as someone who aspired to be above politics, is well known for his ...

Chicago teachers balk at reopening plan, face pay loss if they don’t return Dawn Reiss CHICAGO —Chicago Public Schools will reopen for some students Monday for the first time since last spring amid an escalating clash between city officials, who are threatening to withhold pay from teachers who do not show up, and the powerful Chicago Teachers Union, which contends that schools are not properly outfitted to combat the coronavirus. Teachers who don’t show up for work Monday “will be deemed absent without leave and will not be eligible for pay,” said Janice Jackso...

Denton County Public Health confirmed Tuesday another two county residents had died of COVID-19. They were a Lewisville woman in her 60s and a Highland Village man who was at least 80 years old. DCPH does not release further identifying information about those who die of COVID-19. Confirmation of the cause of their deaths brought the countywide death toll of COVID-19 to 167, according to local officials. The Texas Department of Stat Health Services, on the other hand, had reported 265 such deaths by Monday evening. As of Tuesday, roughly 91% of all the staffed adult intensive care unit beds a...