"Our building engineers and facilities team have been working diligently to clear sidewalks and parking lots of snow and ensure all school buildings are warm, safe, and fully ready to welcome students and staff back to school," the district wrote in an email to parents.
A new poll from the American Federation of Teachers finds that teachers support school reopenings, but only if certain conditions are met, including vaccine prioritization.
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Chicago’s Big Education, Inc. The teachers’ union’s outsize power comes at the expense of students, parents, and taxpayers.
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On Super Bowl Sunday, the Chicago Teachers Union announced its intention to return to the classroom. Finally, Chicago’s 347,476 public school students can receive the same in-person instruction that many private and parochial students have already been receiving throughout the pandemic. Why does this seem like such a big achievement?
Other “essential” workers such as grocery clerks, doctors and nurses, and package-delivery workers haven’t enjoyed the same luxury of working remotely and they’ve kept doing their jobs without the generous pay and benefits earned by Chicago’s public-school teachers.
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When setting goals, it’s important not to lower the bar. Yet that’s exactly what the Biden administration has done with school reopenings.
When asked last week about President Joe Biden’s “100-day plan” for reopening schools, press secretary Jen Psaki said, “His goal that he set is to have the majority of schools, so more than 50%, open by Day 100 of his presidency, and that means some teaching in classrooms.”
“So at least one day a week, hopefully it’s more,” she went on to explain.