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CHICAGO (AP) – Teachers agreed Tuesday to return to the classroom after more than a week on the picket lines in Chicago, ending a combative stalemate with Mayor Rahm Emanuel over evaluations and job security…
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theGRIO REPORT – Classes have resumed in one Illinois school – without the teachers. Lake Forest High School, a suburb outside of Chicago, opened its doors yesterday morning despite an ongoing teacher strike, WMAQ reported…
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theGRIO REPORT – Among the storm of praise and criticism surrounding Chicago’s teachers strike, the city’s educators seem to have picked up some new supporters…
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theGRIO REPORT – In one of the most promising moves during the Chicago Teachers’ Union strike that has over 26,000 teachers picketing, officials say 360,000 students could be back in class Monday…
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CHICAGO (AP) – The city’s nearly weeklong teachers strike appeared headed toward a resolution Friday after negotiators emerged from marathon talks to say they had achieved a “framework” that could end the walkout in time for students to return to class Monday…
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CHICAGO (AP) – The city’s public schools will stay closed for at least one more day, but leaders of the Chicago Teachers Union and the school district kept talking Thursday, with both sides saying they were drawing closer to a deal to end the nearly weeklong strike…
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CHICAGO – As the Chicago Teacher’s Union strike enters its fourth day, the nearly 400,000 students, and their parents, have been left in limbo with ‘nothing to do’ during the standoff…