COVID-19 vaccine deadline extended for Illinois healthcare providers, educators and students
Gov. JB Pritzker has extended the deadline for healthcare workers, teachers and students in Illinois to receive their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Illinois students will be able to take up to 5 mental health days starting next year
Beginning next year, students in Illinois schools will be able to take up to five excused mental or behavioral health days.
New Law: Illinois children can now take 5 mental health days
Beginning next year, students in Illinois schools can take up to five mental health days.
2 Texas teachers die of COVID-19, prompting school district shutdown
A Central Texas school district is closing its schools after two teachers died last week of COVID-19.
New Illinois legislation protects digital learning for students with disabilities
Gov. JB Pritzker signed legislation on Thursday to protect students with disabilities from being left behind by digital learning platforms.
New Illinois legislation protects digital learning for students with disabilities
Gov. JB Pritzker signed legislation on Thursday to protect students with disabilities from being left behind by digital learning platforms.
Suburban school district paying families $2,000 because they don't have enough school bus drivers
Plainfield is offering parents several options depending on their situation: after-school care, $1,000/semester stipends, $0.56/mile reimbursement...
700+ Crown Point students put into quarantine; school district now requiring masks
Students in Crown Point were initially allowed to decide whether they wanted to wear a mask or not. But starting Wednesday, the school district has mandated masks be worn by everyone.
Hundreds of Chicago students still without rides to school due to bus driver shortage
Tuesday is the second day of the school year and Chicago Public Schools families are dealing with a school bus driver shortage.
Indiana student trying to get on school bus is run over and killed
The sheriff said that Shiam Sunder Shankara Subramani, 25, of Columbus, disregarded the bus's stop arms and struck the victim as they were crossing the street to get on the bus.
Chicago Public Schools students return to classrooms on Monday
“I’ll do a lot of praying to have God protect us in the morning," said one mom, noting that her kids will be wearing masks.
CPS students return to classrooms for first day of school
FOX 32's Joanie Lum reports...
90 school bus drivers who don't want vaccines quit, CPS offering $1,000 to students without rides
The district's answer? To pay students to find their own way: $1,000 for the first two weeks of school and $500 a month after that.
Hammond High School students to attend class remotely on Monday after two students were shot Friday
High school and middle school students will attend class remotely on Monday. Elementary students will be in person.
Hostile school board meetings have members calling it quits
A growing number of school board members are resigning or questioning their willingness to serve as meetings have devolved into shouting contests between deeply political constituencies over how racial issues are taught, masks in schools, and COVID-19 vaccines and testing requirements.
Tips for easing stress this fall
Here are some tips to start the new school year off successfully.
Teacher took off mask for read-aloud and infected half the class with COVID-19, CDC report says
Health officials investigated a COVID-19 delta outbreak at an elementary school in California and found an unvaccinated, infected teacher who read aloud to students without a mask started the spread.
CPS parents in support of weekly COVID testing
A group of parents are calling on Chicago Public Schools to follow through on a promise of weekly COVID-19 testing.
Chicago students to get free CTA rides on first day of school
The Chicago Transit Authority will once again be offering free rides to students on the first day of the school year.
Warrant: Georgia teacher used zip ties to restrain child
Elizabeth Louise Board, a teacher at Godley Station K-8 School in the Savannah-Chatham School District, used the ties Aug. 6 to secure a student to his chair and table, officials alleged.