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Reopen public schools? How Chicago became ground zero for debate.
DATE: February 1, 2021
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 news conference. “We know that because we have studied what’s happened in other school systems in our city,” referring to Roman Catholic, charter, and other schools that have opened since the pandemic.
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