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After members of the Chicago Teachers Union approved a deal with Chicago Public Schools to return to in-person learning, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and CPS leadership...

Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union have reached a tentative agreement to return to in-person learning that is subject to a CTU member vote.

The WSWS has received dozens of statements of support for Chicago teachers from educators and other workers around the world.

COLUMBIA - Substitute teachers will receive a pay raise for the current school semester, according to a presentation given at Monday nights Columbia Public Schools meeting. 
 According to CPS Superintendent Peter Stiepleman, substitute teachers will receive $85 per day for their first 10 days of service, followed by $95 per day for each day of service after that. 
 This comes after the issue of teacher retention was raised during the meeting, as the decision to return to in-person lea...

The tentative deal Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) leaders reached over the weekend with Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) officials is an abject surrender that must be rejected.

Chicago Teachers Union endorses a bargain with death, agrees to in-person classes Chicago Public Schools (CPS), Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the leadership of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) came to an agreement Sunday on a deadly plan to reopen schools in the third largest district in the US at the height of the pandemic. After Lightfoot and CPS CEO Janice Jackson announced the tentative agreement (TA), the CTU held an all-membership meeting at which only top bureaucrats were allowed t...

GREGORY PRATT AND HANNAH LEONE Chicago Tribune CHICAGO — Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the Chicago Teachers Union’s leadership reached a tentative agreement Sunday to reopen city schools for families seeking in-person instruction, narrowly avoiding a strike, sources said. Any deal is contingent on broader union approval of the terms. It was not clear if or when that might happen and a new target date for a return to in-person instruction had not been announced. Both sides have ...

5:17 p.m.: Cole County adds 27 new positive cases The Cole County Health Department will now show positive case totals by day, which reflects the date the specimen was collected instead of the date the results were received by the Health Department. This change will cause a delay in the daily totals being reported for the current day. The county is also no longer reporting active or isolated cases. There have been 7,511 cases in Cole County, an increase of 27 cases over 24 hours. There have ...

A strike in Chicago would provoke similar opposition across the US and join a global upsurge of educators striking against school reopenings in over a dozen countries.

Sharkeys comments were made in a letter emailed to CTU members on Friday afternoon, saying Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot "has walked away from the bargaining table again" after submitting the offer Thursday night. In a statement Friday afternoon, Lightfoot and CPS CEO Dr. Janice Jackson said they had "yet to receive a formal response in writing today from CTU leadership," adding "the ball is in their court." Late Thursday evening, CTU said in a statement that the district "continues to reject ...