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About her going back through that again, she said to me last night, she said "mom, this is when im supposed to be preparing for high school" and she should be given that opportunity to really test herself and push herself in the classroom. but the remote learning environment isnt going to cut it. >> so covid testing was not great in chicago public schools. just to be clear, its not like every student got tested before they were to go back and a lot of testing results were invalidated. do you thi...

Actually dont show up to school after this vote goes through, it puts the decision in the school districts hands as to whether they would lock these teachers out of their remote classrooms as they have threatened to do under similar circumstances in the past. and for the school district, they resumed in-person learning on monday, and have maintained all along that going to school is safe because of vaccinations, universal masking, social distancing, testing, and more. mayor lori lightfoot even r...

On our lives and our families. the children must be always front and center. every decision has to be made with them in the forefront. there are many people to thank for getting us to this moment and i want to thank cps ceo pedro martinez. he and his team have done yeomans work and been steadfast partners this making sure that we focus on getting our children back to in-person learning. and thanks also to the cdph commissioner alice and her team who provide the science and data to make sure were...

>> its absurd. its not possible. they have spent the money, i have full trust in c.p.s., they know what they are doing, i worked as a member, elected to my school board, my school is safe, it is 100% the union posturing and holding our children hostage. >> sandra: i want to get this in here, this is the teachers union president backing up this decision. listen. >> what the mayor doesnt understand is through the course of this entire pandemic the city has failed to deliver a whole number of basic...

Members of the teachers union said their target date to return to the classroom is january 18th, if not sooner. all of this on top of the district reporting a record number of new cases. i want you and our viewers to take a look at this number. six the break, cps is reporting more than 422 new cases among its students and more than 270 cases amongst staff. as you know, this is the third straight day school has been canceled for students in the chicago public schools. it all started on tuesday. t...

Impacting 300,000 students, already suffered the effects of in-person learning. doctors, parents, even president biden insisting we all have the tools necessary to keep the schools open safely. >> john: we have you covered this afternoon. medical perspective just ahead, but first, garrett tenney has been on the story. >> classes canceled today and barring a breakthrough in negotiations, likely the case tomorrow for most schools. but not all of them. thanks to some teachers who are bucking their ...

Public health data which shows that school transmission is the top way that covid is spread, and then you look at chicago public schools only data. just from two days of in person schooling, there were 2,400 positive cases of teachers and students, 9,000 in karen tone and that was expanding exponentially so omicron expands wrappedly. we didnt have the mitigations in place to detect it and yet other we are. you talk about not having the infrastructure place. theres separate measures, i can tell y...

Martinez, arguing this current tactic of negotiation isnt practical. >> i have been very, very clear that it is not practical to have a district-wide decision when there is such a variance across our city on how covid is affecting us. >> it feels like groundhog day. they are compelling leadership to harm hundreds of thousands of chicago families who rely upon c.p.s. for their daily needs. for their education, for their nutrition, for their safety. thats real harm. >> reporter: now, part of what ...

Thats this diverse, you know, some parents have access to technology and some parents, theres even language barriers as well. and so cps has to take all those things into account when theyre deciding what the best path is and i think the mayor beliefs right now in the opt-in program and putting that power and decision back into the hands of the parents and that seems to be the right thing to do right now. >> whoever is accountable here, and people have different opinions on it, clearly you have ...

Pandemic, by 8th grade, less than 90% of children were proficient in reading and math. we didnt have a strong proficiency rate. there was an academic gap that already persisted and now you add on the fact that our students are now sitting at a laptop, and we have data to show, in fact, my group that im a part of called the black community collaborative, we did a foia, a freedom of information to pool cpss data for the grades around k through 12 and the attendance. what we found is it was a catas...