Chicago Public Schools teachers will not be locked out of remote learning this week “as a gesture of good faith” while negotiations with the Chicago Teachers Union continue, officials said Monday, backing off a threat that likely would have triggered a strike.
The school system called off in-person classes Tuesday and Wednesday to allow more time for an agreement with the union on how and when to reopen schools for the first time during the pandemic.
“We have secured agreement on one other open issue and made substantial progress on a framework that we hope will address the remaining issues,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot and schools chief Janice Jackson said in a statement.
“We are calling for a 48-hour cooling off period that will hopefully lead to a final resolution on all open issues. As a result of the progress we have made, and as a gesture of good faith, for now, teachers will retain access to their Google Suite.”
CPS and CTU noticeably laid off the attacks and insults Monday that had highlighted negotiations over the weekend. Lightfoot, in particular, struck a more conciliatory tone than she had in recent days, and the union’s highly critical social media presence was more muted.
A day earlier, the stage appeared set for a strike after CPS and CTU failed to reach an agreement, delaying in-person classes that had been scheduled to resume Monday. While the possibility for a strike still looms — a move that would halt learning altogether for 290,000 students this week — there appears a willingness and urgency from both sides to resolve the impasse before that point.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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