Despite concerns about already overcrowded schedules for students, the Naperville Unit District 203 school board narrowly approved a plan to require a curricular element in high school music programs next school year.
Less than a month before classes begin at the two high schools in Naperville Unit District 203, officials are still trying to secure vehicles for their driver s education students.
Naperville Central High School students made a presentation to the District 203 school board in an effort to convince them to shift to electric buses, something district officials said is not economically feasible right now.
As Naperville Unit District 203 prepares to purchase 17 new buses, several board members are frustrated at the district s delay in shifting to an electric fleet.
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Illinois next week will make 150,000 first-dose appointments for coronavirus vaccinations available at 11 state-run mass vaccination sites in the Chicago suburbs and at area pharmacies as Illinois opens eligibility to everyone 16 and older, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Thursday.
The expanded eligibility that starts Monday covers suburban Cook County and the state’s other 101 counties, most of which already have opened to that age group. The city of Chicago has said it will expand to universal eligibility on April 19, meeting a new goal President Joe Biden set this week.