Chicago Public School teachers and school support staff will get the same 12 weeks of paid parental leave already provided to all 32,000 city employees, thanks to an agreement that Mayor Brandon Johnson forged with the Chicago Teachers Union he once served.
of stepping in to rescind a promise by her hand-picked school leadership to give CPS employees the parental leave benefit.
"I’m the mayor who said, ‘This is a really good idea. That we should get it done.’ And we got it done for the city. What sense would it make for me to then say, ‘But I want to deny it to every other person outside of the city of Chicago government proper’? That doesn’t make any sense. Think of the logic and the absurdity of that," Lightfoot said on that day.
During a City Hall news conference, Johnson called the new policy a "very bold step" and a "huge win for CPS employees." It will allow new parents to deliver for their students, but also "show up for their own families during a critical time in their lives."To match the city policy, the CPS expansion to 12 weeks of paid leave will apply to those "growing their family by birth, adoption or foster care, as well as those acting as a surrogate.
That favored-nation status was a marked contrast from the cold shoulder Davis Gates got over the last four years, including when she was stopped at a City Hall elevator by the mayor’s security team and barred from participating in the final round of negotiations that ended the 11-day teachers strike.Davis Gates recalled the "hardship" she was forced to undergo "to be a mom." The mother of three said she had to beg her parents for help just to pay her bills.
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