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He wasn't confident any of the measures in the agreement would add protection for students or staff. The union’s elected negotiators “are busting their behind to get the city to agree to basic safety measures,” but the city and particularly Mayor Lori Lightfoot refused to budge, Stieber said. Voting was to end Wednesday.ĭave Stieber, a social studies and poetry teacher at a South Side high school, said Tuesday that he'd would vote against the proposal - but all of his frustration was with the city. Union President Jesse Sharkey acknowledged it “wasn’t a home run,” a day before some 25,000 rank-and-file members were due to start voting on the deal. The union’s house of delegates approved the deal by 63%, lower than the 80% who voted a week earlier to teach remotely.

The tentative deal didn't include two key provisions the union wanted: Metrics to prompt district-wide remote learning and assurances that union members wouldn’t be punished for failing to report to schools. Many union members also seemed displeased with the end results, saying they fell far short of initial demands. “We were basically flying by the seat of our pants,” said Casas, who lives in a heavily Latino enclave of the city. He said remote learning was not a good option, particularly for one of his children who has special needs.

He blamed the union for the nightly uncertainty about the status of schools and said the agreement contained “marginal” improvements. Neither he nor his wife can work remotely and had to take off work. Parent Nolberto Casas, who has two young children enrolled in CPS, said the fight between the union and city turned his house upside down. The pandemic learning issues in Chicago mirror those elsewhere, but the city's fight with the powerful union stood out, drawing attention from the White House, governor's office and fueling fresh frustrations for parents already worn out by the past two years.įor some, the ends didn't justify the means, dragging out uncertainty for students in the largely Latino and Black low-income district. The district, which flatly rejected online class and said it was disastrous for students, responded by locking teachers out of online platforms, docking their pay and canceling classes in the roughly 350,000-student district. Students were poised to return Wednesday, one week after the Chicago Teachers Union voted for remote learning and instructed members to stay home until there was a deal or the latest COVID-19 surge subsided. But parents and some union members questioned whether the bitter fight over pandemic safety protocols that canceled five days in the nation’s third-largest school district was worth it. The best part? All the weapons are unlocked from the get-go, so you can find your favorite and use it immediately.By SOPHIA TAREEN and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated PressĬHICAGO (AP) - Chicago schools will expand COVID-19 testing and have standards to switch schools to remote learning under a hard-fought tentative deal approved by teachers' union leaders.

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