It also emphasizes that testing is just one mitigation strategy and that data shows that in-school transmission has been low. Come up with a different plan. Despite that, other Illinois school districts are using an opt-out policy, including in Evanston, Naperville, Joliet and a few charter schools in Chicago. Chicago Public Schools acknowledges it was slow to stand up its testing program and struggled at first to enroll families, who complained of a complicated process.
The week before winter break CPS was testing a high of about 30, students and staff a week but had promised 40, tests a week. Rochelle Walensky to be more open.
The two cases are in a preliminary posture, but how the court rules will very likely signal how these issues are ultimately resolved. Skip to main content. Listen The mayor would not give in, saying parents had to affirmatively opt their children in. But this depends on teachers and staff getting enough students to opt into the testing. The district also is allowing for verbal consent to testing, rather than waiting for parents to sign up online, which some parents have found cumbersome.
Still up in the air is whether the five canceled days will be made up and teachers paid for wages lost during the shut down. The union maintains they should be if the school district is worried about children missing instruction.
Meanwhile, at some schools on Monday, students and parents said little instruction was taking place because of staff absences. At Taft High School on the far Northwest Side, junior Emma Pakieser asked her mother to pick her up after spending much of the morning in the auditorium after class after class had no teacher or substitute. She said the school handed out Ntype masks at the beginning of the day, but many kids were still wearing lower quality ones.
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