CPS To Make Up 5 Days Lost To Teachers' Strike; School Resumes Friday
"Classes will resume tomorrow," Lightfoot said at City Hall. "The teachers will be back in class, the students will be back in class tomorrow."
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"Classes will resume tomorrow," Lightfoot said at City Hall. "The teachers will be back in class, the students will be back in class tomorrow."
With the city's teachers' strike over, Chicago Public Schools football teams now will be able to compete in the state playoffs this weekend.
"They have basically issued a take it or leave it demand. They get 11 days back or the strike continues. That's simply a non-starter," Lightfoot said
The Chicago Teachers Union has called a meeting of its 800-member house of delegates for Wednesday evening, as negotiations continue on a deal to end the ongoing teachers' strike at Chicago Public Schools.
Teachers who violate the picket line are called scabs, traitors, or deserters. But some are still risking it all.
Tuesday will mark the ninth day of missed class for Chicago Public Schools students.
The union representing some Chicago Public Schools support staff has come to a tentative agreement with the city – but that has no effect on the teachers' strike.
The Chicago Teachers Union and the school board met all day and into the night Saturday behind closed doors at Malcolm X College.
Teachers have been on strike since Oct. 17, and students have missed seven days of class as a result, matching the length of the last Chicago teachers' strike in 2012.
As the Chicago teachers' strike enters its 10th calendar day, teachers and their supporters plan to rally at Union Park, while some CPS student runners plan to show up to a regional meet at Lincoln Park, even though they can't compete.
Striking teachers marched in the Loop and in Grant Park on Friday, a day after both the Chicago Teachers Union and the Chicago Public Schools reported progress in a strike that has now gone on for seven school days.
Negotiators were back at the table on Thursday, but CPS said the union's House of Delegates had not scheduled a vote to end the strike as of 4 p.m., so the district could not hold classes on Friday.
With the Chicago teachers' strike now marking six days without classes at Chicago Public Schools, at least one parent is urging both the district and the union to "swallow your pride" and compromise to resolve their disputes so kids can be back in school by Friday.
All signs point to the Chicago teachers strike stretching at least into the weekend.
Chicago Public Schools students will miss a sixth day of class due to the ongoing teachers strike, as negotiations between CPS and the Chicago Teachers Union continue.
CBS 2's Chris Tye showed us Wednesday whether the issue of nurses in every school is the norm or the exception.
A Chicago Public Schools cross-country team has lawyered up – now looking for a way to keep their season alive as teachers are on strike.
tudents will be missing a fifth day of school on Wednesday as a teachers' strike continues.
Talks between the striking Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools negotiators were on the verge of a breakdown on Tuesday.
The Chicago Public Schools will be closed again on Wednesday as a teachers' strike presses on for what will be fifth school day – and some parents are getting fed up with the battle between both sides.
At least 20 of the Chicago Public Schools' more than 300,000 students are still reporting to their teacher right now, after the teacher crossed a picket line during the ongoing strike.
The mayor says Chicago Public Schools students "cannot afford to be out of school for any longer."
The Chicago teachers' strike stretched into its fourth day on Sunday, and it is set to stretch into its third school day on Monday.
Former Vice President and current Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden called attention to the Chicago teachers' strike at an event for Teacher Union Day in New York on Sunday.
The Chicago Teachers Union said they've made progress, with tentative agreements on eight different items.
