It does not matter the size nor position the person plays who she is guarding, Alyssa competes.” The 5 foot 2 senior begins her third season on varsity, running the point and spearheading the defense. She averaged 8.2 points and 4.0 rebounds a year ago. More of a role player the past two years in the shadow of 1,000 point scorers Katelyn Etherton and Lauren Langley, she is poised to take it up a notch as a senior.

“Meeting inside: even if you more than 6 feet apart, if you in a poorly ventilated room for a long period of time, if someone positive, there can be transmission inside those rooms. Eating together: most people don have a mask on when they eating. And then greeting: just the social interactions outside the facilities.

Of the 7,382 students who took the i Ready exam in the fall of 2019 and fall of 2020, the majority in kindergarten through second grade, students performed on average at 105% of the expected learning growth in math, and at 130% in reading, said Jim Rigg, superintendent of the Archdiocese of Chicago Catholic schools.The study found schools with predominantly white students who took the exam lost an average of one to three months of learning during spring 2020 COVID 19 school closures, and schools with predominantly Black and Latino students fell further behind, losing three to five months, Rigg said.Based on analysis of data from the Curriculum Associates i Ready platform, the study also found that students in the sample learned only 67% of the math and 87% of the reading that grade level peers would typically have learned by the fall of 2020, he said.”For me, our results reflect the rapid move to quality virtual learning in the spring, followed by our in person instruction resuming this fall,” Rigg said, adding that around 80% of students are back in the classroom, with 20% selecting the remote learning option.”We don’t engage students in high stakes testing, but periodic assessments are helpful to our teachers so they can look at each student’s knowledge and growth, and understand how they can support them in the classroom, and help them reach their goals,” Rigg said.Candice Usauskas, principal of St. Mary Star of the Sea School, in the city’s West Lawn neighborhood, said she is pleased, but not surprised, that her students 95% Latino and 75% English language learners performed well on their recent i Ready assessments.Principal Candice Usauskas is pictured at St. Mary Star of the Sea School in Chicago’s West Lawn neighborhood on Feb.