'What the teachers' union did was an illegal walkout. They abandoned their posts and they abandoned kids and their families,' Mayor Lori Lightfoot said in a national news interview on Sunday.
and they abandoned kids and their families," Mayor Lori Lightfoot said in a national news interview on Sunday. "We are working diligently every single day at the bargaining table to narrow the differences and get a deal done."
While both sides have agreed on a handful of items, they remain deadlocked on remote learning and testing. It was that comment about school nurses that sparked a fury of tweets from the union Sunday evening, including one tweet that read in part: "What the mayor doesn’t seem to understand is how dire the nursing situation is in schools….We have been short staffed all year."Hammond, who has two children at Park Manor Elementary School, said she believes children should go remote until all students can be tested.
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