Chicago Public Schools has no decision yet on Tuesday classes; teachers union says it won’t be 'bullied' by Mayor Lightfoot.
Chicago Public Schools reported at 5 p.m. Monday that officials had not yet made a decision about whether Tuesday classes will go forward after four days of canceled classes, as negotiations with the Chicago Teachers Union continued.
“The mayor needs to help actually compromise. … The mayor says she’s going to be relentless in prosecuting the case. But she is not a prosecutor and I am not a criminal,” he said, adding the union is “hitting a brick wall” in its request for a clear metric that would trigger a school to go remote. Most of the school leaders that participated in their group’s discussion said they support a week of remote learning because of staffing, cleanliness, ventilation, masking and testing woes.
Late Saturday, Pritzker announced his office had secured 350,000 rapid antigen tests for CPS to purchase. That followed, confirmed by Pritzker’s office Friday, that the state had earlier offered CPS vaccination clinics, masks and SHIELD tests to CPS, but the city didn’t take up the offer.
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