"The teachers, I know they want to work," Biden said when asked about the Chicago Teachers Union by a reporter on Monday. "They just want to work in a safe environment."
Since Chicago Public Schools started requiring staff to report to in person despite no agreement with the Chicago Teachers Union on reopening each side has pushed a different narrative about conditions in schools and at the bargaining table.
CPS has chaperoned media tours at handpicked schools where every coronavirus safety protocol appears to be followed: temperature checks at the main entrance, HEPA air purifiers in each classroom, masks, social distancing reminders on floors and walls. CTU has shared crowdsourced photos from other locations where teachers report missing air purifiers, windows that won’t open and wipes gray with dirt from a surface that was supposedly deep-cleaned.
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Some charter schools, teachers agree on reopening plans; CTU wonders why CPS cannot do the same
By Sun-Times Media Wire
FOX 32 s Joanie Lum reports.
CHICAGO - Teachers working for some charter school operators have reached agreements about reopening schools while the
Charter operators Passages, Acero and Latino Youth are moving ahead on schedules different from Chicago Public Schools, some postponing reopening plans altogether and others working virtually until a full agreement is reached. They have been able to get agreements based on safety and humanity … the demands are very similar, if not the same. CTU Vice President Stacy Davis Gates said Friday. The only block in this, the only person choosing a lockout of educators is the mayor and the Chicago Public Schools.