Reprinted from The Washington Post by Dawn Reiss on January 30, 2021.
More than 500 parents have joined a grass-roots organization called the Chicago Parents Collective, which is asking the district to reopen schools and hosting a rally on Sunday in Humboldt Park. Schools have been closed for months because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Another parent-led coalition, CPS Sick-Out, is asking Chicagoans to call their children in sick on Monday, when the city says it will open for preschoolers through eighth-graders and special-education students. …
