Chicago's one-day teacher walkout hits 400K students, Picket curve went up alfresco Chicago schools Friday at 6:30 a.m. in a one-day exhibit by the Chicago Agents Union that will affect about 400,000 students.
The acceptance accept the advantage of spending the day in "contingency sites," locations set up at churches, libraries ands academy buildings.
Chicago Agents Union carnality admiral Jesse Sharkey stood alfresco a academy aboriginal Friday as protesters shouted “fight for funding.” the Associated Press reports.
Chicago's one-day teacher walkout hits 400K students
Sharkey says the ambition of the exhibit is to fix the Illinois accompaniment account crisis and armamentarium schools. He says agents will activity until schools accept money and “we are not demography no for an answer.”
The commune said beforehand that CTU associates who don't appearance up for plan will not be paid, and that schools will be accessible for agents who do wish to cantankerous blockade lines, the Chicago Tribune reports.
The Chicago Agents Union endure went on bang in 2012, shutting down schools for added than a anniversary afore extensive an acceding with Mayor Rahm Emanuel. That arrangement asleep in June.
Friday’s activity could adumbrate a best bang over a new contract, which by law can’t action for several weeks.
Chicago Accessible Schools is adverse a $1.1 billion account adjoin a accomplishments of arrangement talks amid agents and the academy district. The "day of action" is aimed at bolstering the talks and accepting the absorption of accompaniment legislators in Springfield, Ill., to access accessible apprenticeship funding, WLS-TV reports.
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