{"id":1183425,"date":"2022-01-03T12:50:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T17:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1183425"},"modified":"2022-01-03T12:50:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T17:50:28","slug":"chicago-teachers-prepare-to-strike-over-return-to-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-teachers-prepare-to-strike-over-return-to-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Teachers Prepare To Strike Over Return to Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchicago-teachers-prepare-to-strike-over-return-to-classroom%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1183425&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/\">Campus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Union claims rise in COVID cases makes classroom instruction unsafe<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1229643899_736x514-736x514-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1229643899_736x514.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1229643899_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1229643899_736x514-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGetty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/alex-nester\/\" title=\"Posts by Alex Nester\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Alex Nester<\/a> \u2022 January 3, 2022 12:42 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Chicago teachers are preparing to strike over what they say are unsafe working conditions caused by a spike in coronavirus cases.<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Teachers Union has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbez.org\/stories\/chicago-students-to-return-to-class-monday-amid-debate-over-covid-19-safety\/086d207e-9bdc-4a74-9eac-7faf5dc1770d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scheduled<\/a> a Tuesday vote to determine whether its 25,000 members will refuse to return to the classroom, WBEZ reported. On Sunday, more than 6,000 union members at a virtual town hall said they would not feel safe resuming classroom instruction following winter break. Chicago schools were set to reopen Monday, though some schools have already <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/education\/2022\/1\/2\/22864342\/return-to-school-cps-ctu-covid-remote-work-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moved<\/a> to remote learning without district approval.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the union called for two weeks of remote learning unless all students and district staff provided a negative COVID-19 test before returning to school. The district distributed 150,000 at-home tests for students to take over the break and mail in by Dec. 28. This weekend, the district pushed the mail-in deadline to Jan. 6, following reports that tests were piling up in FedEx drop boxes.<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Teachers Union has repeatedly bucked efforts to resume in-person learning. Last January, the union <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/chicago-teachers-union-refuses-plan-to-reopen-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thwarted<\/a> Chicago Public Schools&#8217; plan to reopen schools, even though studies <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/new-study-finds-covid-transmission-in-schools-is-extremely-rare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> viral spread in school settings to be &#8220;extremely rare.&#8221; Many teachers who followed the union\u2019s decision to switch to virtual learning were declared absent without official leave and didn\u2019t receive pay.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the union claimed that the &#8220;push to reopen schools is rooted in sexism, racism, and misogyny.&#8221; But studies have shown that black and Latino students have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/education\/when-covid-19-closed-schools-black-hispanic-poor-kids-took-n1249352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disproportionately<\/a> harmed by school closures.<\/p>\n<p>Math and English scores dropped across Chicago Public Schools during the pandemic, according to results reported in December. Only 21 percent of students met or surpassed English standards in 2021, down from 28 percent in 2019. Just 16 percent of students met or surpassed math standards, compared to 24 percent in the year before the pandemic, <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/education\/2021\/12\/2\/22814922\/illinois-report-card-cps-test-scores-pandemic-state-board-education-search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the <em>Chicago Sun-Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus Union claims rise in COVID cases makes classroom instruction unsafe  Getty Images  Alex Nester \u2022 January 3, 2022 12:42 pm Chicago teachers &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}