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Since 2020, school districts across the country have been using millions of federal COVID dollars to improve air flow and quality in their classrooms. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin ended up on a middle school roof finding out how districts are bringing air conditioning to students who have never had it…
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This year, there have been nearly 100 gunfire incidents on school property in America. There have been at least three incidents of gun violence on school grounds just in the WNIJ listening area of northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin.
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At Rockford Public Schools, 754 bus routes were cut during the 2021-22 school year.
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“I think for a long time, not just Summit but regional programs, in general, were thought of this place we put kids we don't know how to manage. We pay a reduced rate for them to come to school and we just hope to not hear a whole lot.”
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“A great many of our students that get pulled out of their home schools on an EIA, would be for having a vape on them. Pushing that kid out of school, who is often a student on track and doing well in school, to kick them out -- we're not owning their education anymore, and outsourcing it. It really doesn't do anything to repair the harm that was done," said RPS' chief of schools.
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“I was so disappointed and disoriented by people's complete lack of understanding. I actually brought it up right early at the beginning of the year, and it got tucked away for the first two quarters. And when we approached nonfiction, our third quarter of research-based writing, we're going, ‘Hey, we’ve got to be a little different.’”
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Several Rockford elementary schools had zero students meet proficiency marks in math.
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Two classrooms sit empty as they struggle to find teachers to cover them
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NIU freshman enrollment increased by over 10% this fall. 100 of those first-year students will have their tuition paid by the "Rockford Promise" scholarship.
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Every school day, a rotating group of 1,400 students will be without a ride.