CHICAGO - School classes were called off for a fourth day in Chicago after the city and striking teachers in the third-largest U.S. school system failed to settle a contract dispute over issues such as class size and staffing.
The Chicago Teachers Union called the work stoppage after contract negotiations failed to produce a deal on pay, overcrowding in schools and a lack of support staff such as nurses and social workers. Union President Jesse Sharkey said during an evening news conference that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s current proposal only addresses 20 percent of overcrowded classes and her support staff proposals do not adequately meet the needs of the district.
“Enough is enough, there’s no further excuse to keep our kids out of school,” Lightfoot said, urging teachers to return to work while their union continued to negotiate. The union showed no sign of giving up the stoppage, saying teachers needed a written contract proposal and it should not have taken this long to get students’ needs met.
Lightfoot, who was elected in April, said the district offered a raise for teachers of 16% over five years, and by the end of that period there would be one nurse and one social worker in every school.
Democrats can’t even keep the schools open in Chicago 😂
If teachers had read the CPS balance sheet, they could have saved themselves the trouble of a strike. There's no money, just an astronomical hole of debt.
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