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The principal of Cordova High School is suing SCS after being placed on leave for comments he made to students after the uprising at the Capitol.
Chicago educators organize independent opposition to teacher union’s plans to reopen schools The fight to prevent school reopenings in Chicago, which is the focal point of the class struggle in the United States, qualitatively deepened on Thursday evening. The Chicago Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee held a powerful meeting that gave voice to the most advanced and determined educators striving to close schools and contain the pandemic in Chicago and worldwide. The committee meeting took place under conditions where the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot an...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- While there is still no deal between Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union, both sides said they made progress at the bargaining table Monday. CPS students will continue virtual learning on Tuesday and Wednesday after the district called for a "48-hour cooling off period." And as a result, the district said educators would not be locked out of their computers. "We don't want a lock-out. We want to keep working remotely as we bargain an agreement to return to our classrooms safely," CTU President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement Monday. "And we're one step clo...
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten discusses the standoff in Chicago after union teachers voted against resuming in-person learning. The parents of Chicago public school students were told not to send their children to school Thursday as the stalemate between the school district and teachers union continues over reopening conditions. Teachers in the nation's third-largest school district decided not to report to schools this week over concerns about the spread of COVID-19. Chicago Public Schools had ordered kindergarten through eighth-grade teachers and staff to come...
Vermont lawsuits, New Hampshire legislation part of renewed push for school choice Trevor Sunn, 18, of Grafton, follows along during a practical math class at the Ledyard Charter School in Lebanon on Thursday. The school provided Sunn with a wireless hotspot because he did not have internet access for attending remote classes at his home. Sunn said he relies on his mother for rides to school while his car is broken. Valley News photographs — James M. Patterson Science teacher Alison Crowley, right, looks in on the progress of Eddie Norwalk, 17, middle, who was making soap for an independent...