Chicago Public Schools teachers will have essentially the same parental leave policy that city workers receive under a new plan announced on Thursday by Mayor Brandon Johnson, ending a conflict that began under his predecessor.
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Mayor Brandon Johnson, shown May 27, announced the new leave policy Thursday with CPS CEO Pedro Martinez and CTU President Stacy Davis Gates.
“With the creation of this policy, our teachers and school leaders can not only show up for their students but for their own families during a very critical time in their lives,” Johnson said. Lightfoot credited the city’s policy update to an agreement with AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and contended CTU would need to “get at the table” to bargain a similar change in CPS.
But Martinez, Johnson and CTU President Stacy Davis Gates gathered at City Hall Thursday to announce the policy change with none of the acrimony that characterized Lightfoot’s relationship with the union.
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