UpdatedFri, Feb 5, 2021 at 8:11 pm CT
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Frustrated over the lack of a deal to resume in-person learning at city public schools, Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday sent a message to a defiant teacher s union: Time s Up. (Chicago Mayor s Office)
CHICAGO Mayor Lori Lightfoot and public schools CEO Janice Jackson made their last, best and final offer to the Chicago Teachers Union for a deal to allow the return of in-person learning.
Chicago Teachers Union leaders rejected it. Late Friday, Lightfoot and Jackson announced a slow return of in-person classes starting with prekindergarten and clusters of special education students on Monday.
Despite a series of productive exchanges between CPS and the Chicago Teachers Union leadership on Monday and Tuesday that should absolutely have led to a comprehensive agreement yesterday, we are deeply disappointed to announce that we still have not reached a deal, Lightfoot continued, adding, Yesterday there were a series of steps backward. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot provided an update Thursday on the status of negotiations with the Chicago Teachers Union. That was simply not productive. And we are conveyed that problem to the CTU leadership in the strongest terms possible, Lightfoot said.
CTU circulated an open letter to parents ahead of Lightfoot s news conference Thursday, saying the battle was about safety and that the mayor and district have unilaterally tried to impose a plan to return educators and students to in-person learning without involving our members, principals, students or parents.
Republican Sen. John Cornyn accuses teachers unions of stoking fear with their refusal to return to classrooms.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is warning the city’s teachers union Thursday that enough is enough and a deal must be struck immediately to reopen public schools during the coronavirus pandemic, as students suffering from failing grades, depression [and] isolation. cannot afford to wait any longer.
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) for the sixth time in a little over a week told parents to keep their children home for remote learning Thursday as its bitter dispute with the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) over reopening conditions is delaying students from returning to classrooms.
Chicago Again Delays School Reopening as Teachers Union, City Fail to Reach Deal
Chicago has again put off the plan to bring students back to classrooms as the nation’s third largest public school district failed to reach an agreement with its teachers’ union to reopen schools that have been closed for almost a year.
In a statement posted on Twitter late Wednesday evening, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) told the families of nearly 70,000 K-8 students that they would have to continue remote learning at home on Thursday. Friday is already scheduled as a no-school day, which means students won’t be able to learn in-person until at least next Monday.
Enough is Enough : Lightfoot tells CTU schools must open now, struggling students can t wait
By Greg Norman
‘Enough is Enough’: Lightfoot tells CTU schools must open now, struggling students can’t wait
Lightfoot, appearing at times emotional and exasperated, vowed that the city’s schools are ready for students to return.
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Lori Lightfoot is warning the city’s teachers union Thursday that enough is enough and a deal must be struck immediately to reopen public schools during the
coronavirus pandemic, as students suffering from failing grades, depression [and] isolation. cannot afford to wait any longer.
Lightfoot made the powerful declaration as tens of thousands of K-8 students in the nation’s third-largest school district lost what was supposed to be their first week back for in-person learning.