Asked if the sides had discussed any target date, Chief Education Officer LaTanya McDade said it would be premature to get into any specifics. “We want to have these conversations in good faith with the CTU, we want to be strong partners with them. The talks are going well, so I don’t want to get ahead of myself talking about anything that hasn’t already been addressed at the table.”

CTU’s deal with CPS does not cover charter schools, whose operators negotiate directly with the union.

According to CPS data, 3,840 district teachers have been granted accommodations to stay remote – and another 425 teachers have taken unpaid leaves of absence. That is more than a fourth of CPS pre-K, special education cluster, and K-5 teachers.

During Schapiro’s tenure, Northwestern catapulted to among the top 10 highest ranked universities in the country, with its applications nearly doubling and its acceptance rate dropping to 7%; Also, The university more than doubled its endowment to $12.2 billion, embarked on a building spree and grew funding for sponsored research by 86%. But Schapiro has clashed with student activists and some faculty on campus, most recently over his response to concerns about racial injustice on campus after a summer of unrest.

“The pandemic has further illustrated the struggle: In too many public school districts with bloated bureaucracies and heavy-handed teachers unions, the adults come first. The kids come last.”

According to the study, White Sox fans drink an average of 4.2 drinks per game and spend about $46, placing them in the No. 1 spot of the “Booziest Baseball Fans” list. According to a similar study, 49% of White Sox fans also reported to have “likely missed some or all of the game due to drinking too much,” placing them in the No. 1 spot once again.

One school’s outreach team encountered a litany of reasons why some families who signed up for in-person learning didn’t appear the first day: Some families had gotten out of the routine of in-person school and overslept — in response, Thurmond arranged wake up calls. Some work situations had changed, complicating logistics of in-person school. Some ran into trouble with the electronic health screener that ostensibly must be completed before anyone enters a school.

The district said the August start would “help minimize summer learning loss after an already disrupted 2020-21 school year,” and would “provide additional instructional time to high school students in advance of high-stakes spring exams such as SAT, PSAT, AP and IB.”

The Chicago program, housed in the city’s Department of Family and Support Services, is in charge of advocacy at 158 sites. The program’s five remaining investigators each now handle 3,500 to 4,000 beds, nearly twice as many as allowed under the state grant conditions.

City inspectors investigated 86 businesses from Thursday through Sunday and cited four businesses in addition to shutting down three parties, officials said.

Ald. Michelle Smith pressed Dr. Allison Arwady on what the city can do to combat vaccine hesitancy and stop COVID-19 from spreading among the city’s most vulnerable populations, including those who live in long-term care facilities. The city is being “held hostage by people who refuse to use the vaccine,” Smith said.

The story of its millennial owners is one of perseverance — growing up amid the challenges of the inner city, overcoming obstacles in their love story, now struggling to hold on to their first business, a lifelong dream that COVID threatens to convert to nightmare. Between February and April, 41 percent of the nation’s 1 million Black-owned businesses had shuttered for good.

“I have not had someone that close to me in 10-11 months. Especially a stranger that close to me. There’s no way to keep 6-feet distance between a bartender and a customer seated at the bar,” one server said.