Chicago Public Schools, the nation's third-largest school system, will start the coming school year with fully remote learning for all students due to the coronavirus pandemic, the district has announced.
Chicago Public Schools, the nation's third-largest school system, will start the coming school year with fully remote learning for all students due to the coronavirus pandemic, the district announced Wednesday.
The decision could avoid a possible strike from the Chicago Teachers Union. The district will implement remote learning through the first quarter, which ends November 9, and then will evaluate if it is safe to open in a hybrid learning model.
How the pandemic will change schools when they reopen 02:45Illinois has seen a consistent rise in daily coronavirus cases over the past two months. The state's seven-day average of new daily cases topped 1,500 this week as Covid-19 has spread widely throughout the country, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.Chicago had previously hoped to start the school year with a hybrid learning model, and had prepared a scenario to do so, but ultimately decided against doing so.
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