Chicago Mayor Lightfoot and Chicago Public School System (CPS) CEO Janice Jackson said on the 8th that no matter how the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) refused to return to school, the 11th public schools must and will definitely allow the first students to return to class in accordance with the plan, CPS said the public schools have completed a series of epidemic preparedness, but also set up a temporary command center, once the number of teachers is insufficient, will immediately by substitute teachers on the line, parents can rest assured.
Jackson pointed out that thousands of teachers and staff were supposed to return to work from the 4th, but the teachers’ union intervened to prevent them from doing so, and about half of them did not report to school in the past week. She made it clear that these teachers and staff will be recorded as “absent” and therefore will not be paid.
Judith Camacho, head of the CPS strategic plan, attended the cloud meeting hosted by the Chinatown Better Together Coalition on the 7th and answered questions from our reporter, saying that although many teachers did not report to work in accordance with the regulations, the public school has set up a command center for back-to-school issues and hired many substitute teachers to be on standby, so as long as there are teachers who did not report on the 11th, substitute teachers can always fill in, and there will be no problems with manpower scheduling.
In addition, for the public school will be regular virus testing of teachers and students to strengthen The prevention of disease? The CPS has provided satellite stations to test for viruses, so students and teachers who want to be tested are free to go to a fixed location at any time to get tested.
This is not a long-term solution, especially for younger children who need extra help and support but cannot get the right learning environment,” Lightfoot said.
According to the CPS survey, about 6,500 students are willing to return to campus for physical classes on the 11th, followed by kindergarten through eighth grade students on February 1, where each family is free to choose to continue their online classes at home or return to the classroom. There is still no definite return date for the high school portion of the program at this stage.
We have an obligation to support parental choice, and it would be irresponsible and wrong to deny it,” Lightfoot said, adding that CPS has invested millions in improving school safety.
Only 60 percent of staff reported to school on time for the first back-to-work day on the 4th, Jackson said, adding that despite constant lobbying by the teachers’ union to its members, the number of staff members who showed up for work by the 8th increased to 65 percent.
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