Jennifer Smith Richards
Jennifer Smith Richards has been a data reporter at the Tribune since 2015. Smith Richards previously covered schools and education for more than a decade at newspapers in Huntington, W.Va.; Utica, N.Y.; Savannah, Ga.; and Columbus, Ohio. Her work has touched on everything from sexual abuse in schools to police accountability to school choice.
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Secluding schoolchildren in isolated spaces would be illegal under a new federal bill.
- More than 10,000 times in a single year, Illinois schools put children into seclusion, latest federal data shows
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- In the last 30 days, people who tested positive for the novel coronavirus reported having recently visited a total of 647 public and private schools statewide, according to Illinois public health data released Friday.
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- Another 349 people living and working in Illinois long-term care facilities died of the novel coronavirus since the last weekly update and another 1,700 were confirmed to be infected, the state reported Friday.
