CHICAGO The Chicago Public Schools, the third-largest system in the continental U.S., cancelled classes on Jan. 5 after an overwhelming majority of its 28,000 teachers and staff voted for distance learning, not in-person classes, in the latest effort to beat the coronavirus pandemic.
“I am so pissed off that we have to continuously fight for the basic necessities, the basic mitigations … this makes no sense,” CTU Vice President Stacy Davis Gates said Monday.
Chicago teachers are expected to vote Tuesday on whether to defy Chicago Public Schools’ orders to return to classrooms amid a spike in city COVID-19 cases.
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The Illinois State Board of Education has declared that students must be taught in school this year, except for those with certain medical exemptions. But in Chicago, there’s still a standoff between the mayor’s office and the teachers’ union over what that should look like during a pandemic.