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CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago's teachers agreed Tuesday to return to the classroom after more than a week on the picket lines, ending a spiteful stalemate with Mayor Rahm Emanuel over teacher evaluations and job security, two issues at the heart of efforts to reform the nation's public schools. Union delegates voted overwhelmingly to suspend the […]

Jeff Johnson asks, Chicago: when the schools are closed, whose doors are open?

Roland Martin gives the latest on the Chicago Teacher's strike from the perspective of Reg Weaver, former President of the National Education Association which is the largest labor union in the United States.

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CHICAGO (AP) — Mayor Rahm Emanuel asked a state court Monday to force Chicago school teachers back to work and end a weeklong strike he calls illegal. The union immediately condemned the move as an act of vindictiveness by a "bullying" mayor. Emanuel spokeswoman Sarah Hamilton said city attorneys filed a request in the Cook […]

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CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago teachers uncomfortable with a tentative contract offer decided Sunday to remain on strike, insisting they needed more time to consider whether to end an acrimonious standoff with Mayor Rahm Emanuel that will keep 350,000 students out of class for at least a few more days. Emanuel fired back Sunday night by […]

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CHICAGO (AP) — More than 350,000 public school students spent a fifth day out of class Friday as bargaining to end the city's teachers strike dragged on ahead of a meeting of union delegates whose approval is required to seal any deal. Rank-and-file teachers returned to the streets for morning rallies to press the union's […]

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CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Teachers Union said Thursday that the city's public schools will stay closed for at least one more day, but the union president said she was hopeful that both sides were close to completing a settlement to end the nearly weeklong strike. "We are optimistic, but we are still hammering things […]

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CHICAGO (AP) — The public teachers' strike that has halted classwork and upset family routines across Chicago ground into a third day Wednesday with some movement reported by union and school board negotiators but no sign of an imminent deal. Union leaders said they will meet Wednesday morning to review a new, comprehensive proposal from […]

Roland Martin talks with Mary Mitchell about the latest on the Chicago teacher's strike.

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CHICAGO (AP) — The head of the Chicago School Board president says the teacher strike will enter a second day after negotiators failed to reach an agreement Monday. David Vitale says the board and the union never even got around to talking about teacher evaluations and recall rights, two of the biggest issues for teachers. […]

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CHICAGO (AP) — With Chicago teachers poised to go on strike for the first time in a quarter century, parents spent Sunday worrying about how much their children's education might suffer and where their kids will go while they're at work. Teachers said they would walk off the job Monday if no deal was reached […]

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CHICAGO (AP) — Elfega Cazares isn't taking sides in the standoff between the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools over contract talks. Like many of the immigrant parents in the city's Pilsen neighborhood, she knows her children stand to lose the most if teachers walk off the job next Monday. "It is very important […]