Chicago Public Schools under fire for defunding paralyzed school clerk s job
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CTU calls on Chicago Public Schools to save paralyzed school clerk s job
The Chicago Teachers Union is calling on Chicago Public Schools to save the job of a longtime school clerk after the district informed her the position would not be funded next school year.
CHICAGO - The Chicago Teachers Union is rallying around a longtime school clerk whose position they claim is being defunded next school year by Chicago Public Schools.
The CTU held a press conference on Tuesday where they called on CPS to save the job of Judy Mahoney, a veteran bilingual school clerk at Michael M. Byrne Elementary school in Garfield Ridge on the Southwest Side.
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