Updated 1/13/2021 4:28 PM
Returning to classrooms for many students at Libertyville and Vernon Hills high schools will include a weekly, on-site COVID-19 test.
Teachers, too, are part of the voluntary program officials in Libertyville-Vernon Hills Area High School District 128 have been working furiously to ready for hybrid learning, which begins Tuesday.
Teachers who returned to school buildings this week were given tests in a practice run to spot issues and fine-tune procedures.
"We're as ready as we've ever been or ever will be for students to come back," Superintendent Prentiss Lea told parents Tuesday during a nearly two-hour informational webinar.
The school board in late November unanimously voted to return to in-person learning. On Jan. 4, a contract with Passport Health to provide Abbott's BinaxNOW tests and testing services at both high schools was approved.