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More than 300,000 Chicago students will miss another day of classes as contract talks between striking teachers and the school district remain at an impasse. Chicago Public Schools announced ...
The 2019 Chicago Public Schools strike was a labor dispute between Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union (which represents the school district's teachers and some of the paraprofessional and school related personnel) and the Service Employees International Union Local 73 (which represents the district's support staff and a majority of the paraprofessional and school related ...
On December 4, 2018, CTU members at the Acero charter school network initiated the first strike at a unionized charter school in US history. The strike ended December 9, 2018, in a major victory with the strikers who won sanctuary school protections for their students, enforceable reductions in class size and parity with the existing pay scale ...
The study also showed that charter schools have lower graduation rates and "are much less likely to be racially or ethnically diverse." [56] In 2015, the Noble Network of Charter Schools was named the best performing large public charter school system in America by the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and was awarded $250,000 by the foundation.
The strike in the nation's third-largest school district came after the Chicago Teachers Union confirmed Wednesday night that its 25,000 members would not return to their classrooms.
The Chicago Public Schools district, the third-largest in the United States, issued a separate statement saying the strike would continue, with classes for 300,000 students canceled again, for an ...
A strike of Chicago Public School teachers that occurred in 2019 was significant enough to garner support from national politicians. [10] Illinois holds the record for the longest teachers' strike to date. This was an eight month strike beginning in October 1986 in Homer, IL. [11]
More than 60 thousand Chicago Public School students and 10 thousand more teachers and staff members were supposed to start school today... For the first time since last March. The Chicago Teacher ...