CHICAGO — Leaders of Chicago’s teachers union have accepted the phrases of a tentative settlement despatched from Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration Monday evening that might reopen the nation’s third-largest public college system later this week, sources shut to the union and mayor’s workplace advised POLITICO.
Although the deal wants to be accepted by the broader union membership, the information marks an infinite step to resume college after 4 days of canceled lessons in Chicago and a heated nationwide debate in regards to the security of bringing college students again to campuses throughout an Omicron-driven wave of Covid-19 circumstances.
The potential settlement would have the labor group’s members return to faculties starting Tuesday, in accordance to a top level view of the proposal, although in-person lessons wouldn’t start till Wednesday.
