Arlington Heights School District 25 nurse fired over allegations of mishandling students’ meds

The Arlington Heights School District 25 Board of Education voted to fire the nurse at the center of a case the district has called a misuse of prescription medications, with the board president calling the situation a “breach of trust” that is “distressing and concerning.”

The board voted 6-0 at a special meeting Wednesday night to fire registered nurse Tory Eitz, who had been the nurse at Westgate Elementary School for five years. Westgate is one of nine schools in District 25 and enrolls nearly 600 students in grades K to 5.

Read more of Elizabeth Owens-Schiele's reporting on the firing and the medicine swap harm investigation in the Chicago Tribune and for the Pioneer Press.