Public school classes in Chicago will resume Friday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said, ending a bitter 11-school-day strike
CHICAGO—Classes will resume Friday for 300,000 students in the nation’s third-largest school district, ending a bitter strike that lasted 11 school days, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced on Twitter.
On Wednesday evening, union delegates agreed to the tentative, five-year contract that met their demands for things like smaller classes and more nurses and other support staff in schools.
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