CPS says remote learning will continue Thursday as CTU directs members to remain at home

CPS is asking parents to keep their children at home for remote learning on Thursday as CTU continues to direct their members who support pre-k and cluster programs to remain at home.

$75 million gift to UChicago’s school of social work ‘will make deep and sustained change’

The University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration will receive a $75 million donation, which the school says is the largest gift ever given to a school of social work.

Chicago principals offer school reopening plan amid COVID-19 pandemic

Chicago Public Schools should allow students back into classrooms in no more than 100 facilities and then gradually reopen others, an organization of school principals proposed Wednesday, saying most of them doubt the nation’s third-largest school district can safely handle a mass reopening.

CPS seeks alternatives to in-school officers

Chicago Public Schools plans to partner with community organizations to create new "trauma-informed safety approaches," following a summer of student-led protests against officers in schools.

Chicago Public Schools reopening hits snag as battle with CTU escalates

Chicago ditched plans Tuesday for thousands of teachers to report to schools this week ahead of students after the teachers union said its members wouldn’t comply and were prepared to picket over coronavirus safety concerns.

CPS building engineers reach new 3-year deal with retroactive raises

The union representing Chicago Public Schools building engineers reached a three-year labor agreement with facility management companies contracted by CPS, officials announced Monday.

CPS teachers discuss COVID-19 fears about returning to classrooms

On the day thousands of Chicago teachers were originally required to return to their classrooms, members of the Chicago Teachers Union held a news conference to detail their experiences with COVID-19 and the difficulties they’ve faced in negotiating with Chicago Public Schools.

Chicago teachers vote to teach from home, defying district

The Chicago Teachers Union said Sunday that its members voted to defy an order to return to the classroom before they are vaccinated against the coronavirus, setting up a showdown with district officials who have said such a move would amount to an illegal strike.

Some charter schools, teachers agree on reopening plans; CTU wonders why CPS cannot do the same

Teachers working for some charter school operators have reached agreements about reopening schools while the Chicago Teachers Union continues to negotiate with Chicago Public Schools.

Vaccinations for CPS staff members to start in mid-February

Chicago’s school district announced Friday that it plans to start vaccinating teachers for the coronavirus in mid-February, though it remained to be seen if that would be enough to stop the teachers union from voting to defy the district’s order to return to their classrooms next week.

CTU members to vote on whether to return to schools
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Chicago Public Schools teacher Lori Torres expresses her concerns regarding the district's reopening plans and why they are putting teachers in harm's way.

Chicago teachers begin vote to defy order to return to class

Chicago teachers began voting Thursday to defy orders to report for in-person class next week ahead of elementary students’ return, actions the nation’s third-largest school district said could lead to “an illegal strike.”

CPS teacher lockouts are disruptive for students, parents say

About 6,000 children — all of them preschoolers and children with complex disabilities — were welcomed back in CPS classrooms Monday for the first time in 300 days, along with 1,200 teachers and 1,700 clinicians.

Chicago teachers punished as classroom no-shows protest

Chicago teachers punished for refusing to show up for the start of in-person classes over COVID-19 concerns, demonstrated Wednesday outside the school board president’s home.

CTU members decry Chicago Public Schools reopening

About 6,000 children returned to Chicago Public Schools classrooms Monday for the first time in 300 days.

CPS touts 'successful reopening' of schools in students' first day back
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LaTanya McDade, chief education officer at Chicago Public Schools, talks about the reopening of classrooms to students and what they want to accomplish going forward.