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No vaccine, no in-person education, teachers say Safia Samee Ali and Corky Siemaszko © Provided by NBC News CHICAGO - Children who have been marooned at home for months by the pandemic are slowly returning to classrooms, but many teachers say they won’t go back until they’ve received the Covid-19 vaccine. Especially in Chicago, the nation’s third-largest public school district, where teachers who were supposed to return to classrooms Wednesday worked from home again and are once more threatening to strike. “Community spread is still so high in Chicago, and so many pe...

Chicago educators are resisting the push back into classrooms. Some took personal days off January 15 and led a car caravan though the streets of Chicago to City Hall and the homes of members of the Board of Education. Photo: Joe Brusky UPDATE, January 25: Chicago teachers announced the vote results yesterday: With 86 percent of members voting, 71 percent voted to work remotely, defying the order that would have sent K-8 educators back into schools today (a week ahead of their students). The vote also authorized a strike if the district should retaliate by locking educators out of access to t...

The public school district reopened doors to the first groups of students since the spring, but some educators refused to return to buildings amid coronavirus fears.

A growing number of Local School Councils, from West Ridge to Logan Square to West Englewood, oppose the plan to start bringing young learners and children in special education “cluster” programs back to school buildings in the new year.