In an effort to reengage students, many of whom hadn’t seen the inside of a classroom in a year and a half, CPS said Wednesday that its staffers reached out to about 85,000 students through canvassing, phone banking and marketing campaigns, and that they made contact with about 80% of that group ahead of the start of school. CPS also said about thousands of students with the “greatest challenges to getting to school” were offered “intensive support.”
