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“Schools and local health departments should consider vaccination levels, number of students in quarantine, ability of the local health department and school to effectively contact trace, adherence to all layers of mitigations — in particular exclusion, isolation, universal masking, and testing — and availability of staff to conduct in-person learning,” Arnold said.

Claudette Bush stands besides a photo of her and late son, jonL Bush, in the backyard of her son’s Chicago home Monday. The younger Bush, who died of COVID-19 last month, worked at Carnegie School in Woodlawn, which has reported 20 cases of COVID-19 in the past two weeks. Flowers from Bush’s memorial this past weekend were placed in the family’s backyard. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)

Cathy Cohen, the David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and Black Youth Project founder, is a part of the new cohort of scholars who will receive $250,000 in unrestricted funds from the Marguerite Casey Foundation and Group Health Foundation. (Irving Vazquez)

You can’t buy the kind of publicity Notre Dame gets just for being Notre Dame, and when the football team is winning, the broadcasts can become a recruiting infomercial. Now comes Freeman to give the program a younger, hipper, more energetic and straighter-talking presence than his predecessor, while also promising to be a “relentless recruiter.”

“Going back to the San Fran game, I really felt like the game was slowing down to him,” Nagy said. “Now as he gets back out there, to be able to help get to different spots within the offense — if we have a check at the line, if we have some growth where he can get to something within the play — seeing him kind of grow in that aspect (would be good). I really felt like his confidence was starting to get good out there. At practice. On the field. In himself.”