Schools Closed Because of Virus; Here’s How They’re Feeding Students
Here's how Champaign, Danville, Decatur and Urbana public schools are feeding students during the school shutdown due to the coronavirus crisis.
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Here's how Champaign, Danville, Decatur and Urbana public schools are feeding students during the school shutdown due to the coronavirus crisis.
About half of Gladys Marquez’s students can’t access the internet at home. Marquez teaches English language learners at Dwight Eisenhower High School in Blue Island on Chicago’s south side. The school serves predominantly students of color from low-income backgrounds.
As of Sunday, at least eight incarcerated men at Stateville Correctional Center have tested positive for the virus, along with multiple staff members at the prison. A staff member at the Sheridan Correctional Center also tested positive for COVID-19, and so did multiple individuals housed at the North Lawndale Adult Transition Center in Chicago.
Champaign Unit 4 school officials plan to distribute Chromebooks to students whose families do not have a device at home.
President Trump has signed into law a historic $2 trillion coronavirus relief package, just hours after the House approved it and shortly before the White House's daily briefing on the pandemic.
President Trump has signed a historic $2 trillion economic recovery package into law Friday afternoon, shortly after the House of Representatives approved the bill
The White House's pandemic task force is scheduled to convene another briefing on Wednesday afternoon amid a tense denouement for legislation aimed at helping an economy poleaxed by the disaster.
Advocates and correctional officials are calling on Illinois and other states across the country to release youth from juvenile detention facilities amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The University of Illinois Board of Trustees voted earlier this month to increase health insurance premiums by more than 30 percent for students at its Urbana-Champaign campus.
Pendant que les cas de la maladie à coronavirus se propagent à travers le Midwest, nous savons qu’il y a beaucoup de questions par rapport à ce sujet- y inclut comment éviter l’infection. Nous savons aussi qu’il y a beaucoup de fausse information sur ce nouveau virus, donc nous voulons vous aider à séparer la vérité de la fiction.