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According to the district, 41 facilities lack quality air conditioning.

An elected school board. A new teachers union contract. The end of a moratorium on school closures. Those are among the biggest education hurdles Chicago’s next mayor will have to navigate over the next four years

The Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday unanimously approved a calendar for the 2022-23 school year that sees students return to classes on Aug. 22, a full week earlier than they did during the current year.

“This year’s school budgets prioritize support for core instruction to improve the classroom experience and set a new standard of excellence,” CPS CEO Pedro Martinez said.

Sharkey said the union is calling for "very reasonable demands" in negotiations. "We're making demands that deal with the ability to limit capacity in high schools to safe levels. High schools cannot make pods," Sharkey said. "We're dealing with demands that have to do with the Board making reasonable accommodations for members and their ability to telework in certain situations. We're making demands that have to do with... vaccinations, especially in the context of increasing transmission, and those are a fairly limited set of issues right now." CPS spokesman Michael Passman said in a state...