Chicago Public Schools and Mayor Lori Lightfoot jointly rejected the latest proposal from the Chicago Teachers Union in the ongoing dispute over whether remote learning should resume amid the latest surge in COVID cases fueled by the Omicron variant.
The HillA school district in Pennsylvania warned teachers on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol not to "wade into" discussions about the incident with students.The Pennridge School District, located in Bucks County, outside Philadelphia, instructed teachers in a Wednesday email to "simply state that the investigation is ongoing and as historians we must wait until there is some distance from the event for us to accurately interpret it"...Few U.S.
cities have labor politics as fraught as Chicago’s, where the nation’s third-largest school system shut down this past week after teachers’ union members refused to work in person, arguing that classrooms were unsafe amid the omicron surge. But in a number of other places, the tenuous labor peace that has allowed most schools to operate normally this year is in danger of collapsing.
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