CARPENTERSVILLE, Ill. — Classes are canceled for more than 20,000 students because of a teacher strike in a suburban Chicago school district.About 1,200 teachers are off the job Tuesday in Community Unit District 300.
Members of the Chicago Teachers Union are scheduled to vote on the proposed contract reached after a seven-day strike last month.The strike left more than 350,000 students out of class across Chicago. The teachers walked out Sept.
On September 10, 2012, some 26,000 Chicago Public Schools teachers and staff went on strike. Here are some images of teachers striking at Lloyd Elementary School, Roosevelt High School and Kelvyn Park High School in Chicago.
Hundreds of Chicago Teachers Union delegates met Wednesday evening for an update on contract negotiations. And in a largely symbolic show of support for the union, they voted to give their president a power she already had: the ability to issue a ten-day strike notice at her discretion.
Even though school is in session for some Chicago Public Schools and a tentative deal between the city and the teachers union was reached earlier this summer, a strike still looms.
The Chicago Teachers Union kicked off what it says will be a week of informational picketing, while Chicago Public Schools began ramping up preparations for a potential teachers strike.
