Despite Chicago remaining in a “high” risk transmission category for COVID-19, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she has no intention of returning to remote learning when classes resume in August.
The 2021-22 school year is drawing to a close with Chicago Public Schools students in the same place they were at the start of the year — in the classroom — something Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she plans to “fight like hell” to continue in the fall.As of Tuesday, which marks the final day of classes for CPS, more than 22,000 students and 9,400 adults have tested positive for COVID-19 at some point during the current school year, according to district data.
Over the course of the last school year, CPS implemented a vaccine mandate for employees, reduced the quarantine period for those who test positive from 10 days down to five and implemented a test-to-stay program — which allows students to avoid a mandatory quarantine following a close contact if they agree to multiple COVID-19 tests — at a handful of schools throughout the district.
“Safe in-person learning is, and has always been, the goal, but COVID-19 spikes this spring have shown us that pandemic mitigation must continue,” the union said in a statement Tuesday.
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