Chicago Public Schools calling its latest proposal to the Chicago Teachers Union a victory
Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago Public Schools CEO Dr. Jackson announced that CPS has come to an a tentative agreement that would bring students and teachers back to in-person learning starting this week. At long last, CPS has finally reached a tentative agreement Lightfoot announced during a press conference Sunday afternoon. I believe in science I trust the public health officials that they re making it as safe as possible, said CPS parent Recia Frenn.
Frenn s 6-year-old son is part of a CPS Special Education Program, one she said better serves her son in person.
Chicago Teachers Tentatively Agree to Return to Classrooms
If approved, the deal would avert a strike and allow some students to receive in-person instruction starting this week.
A preschool student had his temperature checked at an elementary school in Chicago in January.Credit.Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times, via Associated Press
Feb. 7, 2021
The Chicago Teachers Union has reached a tentative deal with Mayor Lori Lightfoot to partially reopen the city’s schools for in-person classes starting this week, the mayor announced on Sunday.
If it is finalized, the agreement would avert a strike that had threatened to disrupt instruction for students in the nation’s third largest school system. It would also allow students in prekindergarten through eighth grade, plus some high school students with severe disabilities, to return to classrooms, albeit on a slower schedule than the mayor had originally wanted.
San Francisco district and unions agree on school reopening plan after city lawsuit
On Saturday, the United Educators of San Francisco (UESF), a collection of several unions representing all school employees, reached a tentative agreement with the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) with a phased reopening plan to force 52,000 students and teachers back into schools for in-person learning.
Under the new framework, which has yet to be voted on by teachers and school workers, schools will begin to return when the county enters the “red zone” of California’s latest “Blueprint for a Safer Economy” reopening plan. The “red zone” signifies a test positivity rate of 5 to 8 percent and up to 7 daily new cases per 100,000 people.