Matt Masterson | January 11, 2021 1:19 pm
Mayor Lori Lightfoot, left, and Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson visit a preschool classroom at Dawes Elementary School at 3810 W. 81st Pl. on the Southwest Side, Monday morning, Jan. 11, 2021. (Ashlee Rezin Garcia / Chicago Sun-Times / Pool)
Some Chicago Public Schools students returned Monday to their classrooms for the first time in 10 months as the school district resumed in-person learning despite fervent pushback from many educators.
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“We need to give the option of the enhanced benefits that in-person learning brings, no question,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday during a press conference at Dawes Elementary School. “So providing that option is entirely consistent with our values of equity and inclusion and leaving no student behind regardless of her circumstances, her zip code, her background. We need to build this path forward, and we’ve started with that today.”
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