The Illinois Green Party has released a statement stressing that the party "wholeheartedly supports the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) in its struggle with the Chicago Public Schools over in-person learning and school safety."
Chicago students recently returned to class following a CTU walkout that
Mayor Lightfoot tested positive for COVID-19 one day after she struck a deal with the Chicago Teachers Union to reopen schools on Wednesday after the teachers held a strike for additional safety policies.
Students will return to school on Wednesday with classes off for Tuesday so that teachers can plan for the return. The plan will set conditions by which any individual school would go back to learning remotely.
Chicago s controversial teacher s union leader called Mayor Lori Lightfoot relentlessly stupid as the union and city officials continue to argue going into a second weeks of school closures.