CTU has walked out on students three times in three school years. The outcome of its upcoming leadership election pits the status quo against potential change – and could alter the political trajectory of the nation’s most militant teachers union.
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Staff members returning to McCutcheon Elementary last week instantly noticed problems just days before students were expected to return to the classroom.
“Two of the classrooms set to receive students had not passed the ventilation assessment by CPS’ standards, teachers found rooms that had not been fully cleaned since March and there was no all-staff meeting or clear instruction on how to receive the students,” social studies teacher Jenny Delessio–Parson said at a news conference hosted by the Chicago Teachers Union Tuesday.
Then a staff member tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, which has forced the school’s principal, assistant principal and four others into quarantine in a hectic return to in-person teaching for the first time during the pandemic.