School reopening deals - Asylum agreements ended - Super bowl blowout

The Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools have spent nearly eight months in talks that escalated to a heated public battle in recent weeks over reopening classrooms in the country’s third-largest school district, which serves more than 350,000 students. The union emphasized that the deal is not finalized in a series of Tweets after [Mayor Lightfoot’s] press conference.
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Officials previously said that teachers who were not approved for medical exceptions who failed to return would be deemed absent without leave and their access to school district systems terminated. Though officials later walked back that assertion, some feared the threat of a lockout could trigger a teachers strike.
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Students will return to school in a staggered timeline, beginning with Pre-K students and cluster students on Thursday and ending with sixth- through eighth-grade students on March 8. No date was set for high school students, who will continue on remote learning. In addition, an estimated 1,500 public school employees will get access to Covid-19 vaccines per week as part of a new vaccine rollout program.