Chicago Teachers to Extend Strike Into Second Week
CHICAGO – Leaders of a teachers union extended their strike on Sunday, saying
they
needed more time to consider a contract deal reached by negotiators over the
weekend
and forcing 350,000 students around this city to begin a second week without
classes.
The decision – which was certain to infuriate City Hall and frustrate parents
already
weary from juggling alternative day care for a week – dashed earlier hopes that
hundreds
of public schools around the city might reopen on Monday. It came as a setback
to the
union’s bargaining team, too, which felt it had secured an agreement its leaders
might
accept, even if it did not quell every concern voiced at protests across the
city over the
past week.
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