After a robust lobbying effort from suburban school and park districts, county leaders are moving to exempt thousands of employees from Cook County’s hastily passed ordinance that strengthened paid leave policies for all county workers, allowing employees to take time off for any reason, not just sickness. Decrying an unfunded mandate and scant notice about how to implement it, several .
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Oak Park River Forest High School District 200 has joined a federal class action lawsuit a California law firm has filed against major social media companies, such as Meta and TikTok.Last week, the OPRF school board voted 5-0 to join the class action lawsuit filed by the Frantz Law Group. Board members Mary Anne Mohanraj and Audrey Williams-Lee abstained.The lawsuit alleges that social media companies have behaved negligently and recklessly in a way that has harmed students and that school districts have incurred costs to treat the harms caused by practices of social media companies. "We allege that Meta, TikTok, Snap, YouTube, and other social media companies have engaged in reckless and negligent misconduct that has caused a mental health crisis among our youth," said James P. Frantz, on behalf of the plaintiff school districts in an April news release. "Social media companies are and have been well aware of the harm they cause. It must stop, and we will fight to hold