Chicago Schools Open Doors to Thousands More Students

Chicago Schools Open Doors to Thousands More Students
Parents and children line up outside George B. Armstrong International Studies Elementary School in Chicago, Ill., on March 1, 2021. Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times via AP
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CHICAGO—Thousands of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students returned to school on Monday morning, the second—and largest—wave of students to go back to classrooms after almost a year of remote learning due to the coronavirus pandemic.

CPS did not immediately provide any details on how many of the 37,000 students in kindergarten through fifth grade who signed up for in-person learning actually showed up. Roughly 5,000 pre-kindergarten students and special education students returned to the classroom when in-person learning became available for them last month.