As anger grows over change in reporting on COVID cases, CPS has no immediate plans to reverse course
CPS last month shifted to only reporting cases at individual schools that were confirmed by contact tracers instead of all reported cases.
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Vaccinated school staff may still get paid COVID leave after Gov. JB Pritzker vetoes original bill
Pritzker vetoed a bill giving staff at public schools paid time off for COVID-19 related absences. He wants to limit leave to vaccinated staff.
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One in four CPS elementary students is vaccinated, with rates varying widely by school
New data show about 53% of high schoolers are vaccinated. Use WBEZ’s tool to look up vaccinations rates for your Chicago school.
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CPS failed to notify families about a big change in its COVID-19 reporting
CPS says a switch in reporting data at the school level was not meant to mislead, but some say it shows an undercount of cases.
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A Chicago cop will keep his job after a ‘clearly unreasonable and unnecessary’ shooting
The city’s Police Board rejected a recommendation to fire officer Luigi Sarli despite finding that he wrongly shot at a vehicle.
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A plan to sue gang members could end up costing Chicago taxpayers
The proposal has been beset with criticism, most recently from civil rights attorneys. It gets a City Council hearing Friday.
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Chicago aldermen make little progress toward compromise on ward map
Without a compromise map nailed down, Chicago aldermen have been sitting through a sparsely attended series of public input hearings. But the once-a-decade process appears stalled.
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Illinois high court hears case over spending campaign money on criminal defense lawyers
Arguments aired Wednesday focused on a $220,000 campaign expenditure by former Ald. Danny Solis, a government mole, for his attorneys.
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Cook County’s top judge nixes Lightfoot’s request for more people to be jailed
Timothy Evans slammed the Chicago mayor’s data and rejected her proposal to halt electronic monitoring for many pretrial defendants.
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Chicago Public Media will acquire the Chicago Sun-Times
The deal was approved by the non-profit board of directors and is expected to close Jan. 31. It will create a new journalistic powerhouse in Chicago and a potential national model.
