HANNAH LEONE AND ELYSSA CHERNEY
Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO â Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Chicago Public Schools will move forward with plans to reopen schools on Monday, despite ongoing objections by the teachers union and a large group of aldermen.
Further, CPS CEO Janice Jackson said staff members who donât show up â as about half failed to do this week â will be deemed absent without leave âand ineligible for pay going forward.â
âThis is not a measure we take lightly,â Jackson added.
Remote learning âis not sustainable, not over the long term, because it does not serve every student equally, especially those students who are younger, who require additional help and support and simply donât have access to a sustainable learning environment,â the mayor said Friday, emphasizing the safeguards in place for students and staff.
Young woman, 22, who was so loved dies after asthma attack
Her devastated family said Emily was a character of all sorts who left a very big impact on everybody’s life
Emily Boulton, 22, who died after an asthma attack. Here with Izaiah, her nephew (Image: Charlie Harrison)
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Most of the Chicago Public Schools teachers and staffers who are scheduled to return to classrooms next week for the first time in nine months have tacitly agreed to do so but almost a third of them requested to work from home or take a leave of absence.
The district ended up rejecting most of those requests, according to CPS data released Tuesday on the 7,002 pre-kindergarten and special education cluster program employees who were told to return to work Jan. 4 following the unprecedented coronavirus pandemic closure.
Two-thirds of those employees 4,684 of them didn’t ask for leave or accommodations.