BREAKING: Chicago teachers to strike after failing to reach contract deal with nation's third-largest school district.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks during a news conference at Chicago City Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. Lightfoot said classes would be canceled Thursday after determining that she can't accept the Chicago Teachers Union's demands, which she says would cost the city $2.5 billion it can't afford. Talks are expected to continue Wednesday.
During the 2012 strike, the district kept some schools open for half days during a seven-day walkout. District officials said this time they will keep all buildings open during school hours, staffed by principals and employees who usually work in administrative roles. “We have parents, who if they don’t go to work, they don’t get paid,” Jackson said. “So, we need to make sure that there is a place for their children to go so that they can continue doing what they need to do to support their families.”
“CPS’ current class size offer falls far short of what’s needed to address the sweeping scale of the problem,” they said in a statement. “To say that you have offered a proposal that respects what we are asking for, to say you’ve bent over backward .... it’s absolutely ridiculous,” Davis Gates said.
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