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On Wednesday, the board that oversees CPS approved a resolution reiterating its COVID-19 protocols, including universal masking for staff and students, testing for unvaccinated employees and quarantine policies. Board members cited progress with declining case numbers, but said the district is not ready to make masks optional.

This past week the Hope Chicago team, led by former CPS CEO Janice Jackson and Pete Kadens and Ted Koenig, Hope Chicago’s co-founders and co-chairmen, visited high schools — including Benito Juarez High School, Al Raby High School, Morgan Park High School and Noble-Johnson College Prep — that are part of their inaugural cohort to announce to 4,000 students that their postsecondary education will be fully funded.

“As you travel across Europe, you come across cemeteries of the fallen soldiers of the United States, the men and women who went overseas to fight the battle against the Nazis, against the communists, over the years, and gave their lives in doing that,” Durbin said. “They were standing up for principles and values, which are still as viable today as they were 75 years ago.”