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Reopen public schools? How Chicago became ground zero for debate.

Posted on AllSides February 1st, 2021
From The Center
education, coronavirus, reopening schools

What’s the right thing to do when it comes to reopening public schools? As a Chicago fight shows, that answer is complicated by the health risks for the community the school is in.

Chicago has become the epicenter of a widespread debate over whether to reopen public schools.

On Sunday evening, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a Democrat, ordered teachers to return to the classroom on Monday and invited kindergarten through eighth grade students wanting to return to report to school the following day. “Our schools are safe,” she said at a...

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