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Chicago students are facing a potential strike by their teachers after Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the nation’s third-largest district will proceed with the reopening of elementary and middle schools.Negotiations between Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union soured on Friday after the two sides could not come to an agreement about in-person learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Students have worked online for nearly a year, prompting frustration among parents and hope that Chicago Public Schools would follow through with its reopening plan for Monday.“Another day has passed, and the CTU has not agreed to anything,†Lightfoot said at a news conference, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. “The CTU leadership has failed and left us with a big bag of nothing.â€
In a promising turn of events in Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced this week that all students would be returning to in-person classes beginning next Tuesday. In order to prepare for the upcoming classes, teachers would need to return on Monday. That all sounded good on paper, but in case you weren’t able to predict this yourself, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) immediately turned around and said that wasn’t going to happen. This set up something of a public standoff, and in a refreshing change from the status quo, Lightfoot announced that her decision was final. If the teachers failed to comply, the city would “take action.†So how do you suppose this is going to work out?
