There’s no centralized tracking of how Illinois districts teach children to read or recommended curriculum list and some are clinging to debunked literacy methods.
As Illinois parents and educators await a Springfield judge’s ruling that could roll back Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s COVID-19 school mask mandate, some suburban school districts are demanding the state deliver an “off ramp” from nearly two years of required virus mitigations.
"It’s leadership only your team can provide & things will get messy without it," one superintendent tweeted at Gov. J.B. Pritzker and state officials.
Soaring numbers of students and teachers with COVID-19 prompted one of Illinois’ largest suburban school districts to cancel classes Monday, as educators in Chicago and the suburbs scrambled to safely reopen schools after the two week winter break