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Chicago Teachers Union Votes To Refuse In-Person Teaching, Will Not Show For Work

Emily Zanotti
Chicago Teachers Union Votes To Refuse In-Person Teaching, Will Not Show For Work
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Chicago’s teacher’s union voted on Sunday to defy Chicago Public Schools administration and refuse to return to in-person teaching even though pupils are due back in classrooms on February 1st.

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has been locked in a power struggle with the union for some time, with teachers and union brass insisting that it is not safe for teachers to return to classrooms, even though Chicago’s private schools have been in-person for months. At one point, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) suggested that any plan to return to in-classroom teaching would be both racist and sexist.

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