Teachers go on strike, classes canceled in Prospect Heights District 23

On another: an equally passionate gathering of teachers, students, and parents at Summit Sierra-one of Seattle’s first-ever public charter schools-wearing bright-blue “Keep Our Schools Open” T-shirts, toting hand-drawn “Don’t Close My School” and “I 3 My School” signs, and frequently breaking into a raucous refrain: “SAVE OUR SCHOOLS!”

Despite the school closures, the strike received strong support from parents of the district’s more than 52,000 students. Numerous centers are at capacity, and the effort is costing the city about $21,000 a day, he said.

“I am disappointed by the decision of the Chicago Teachers Union to turn its back on not only a city negotiating in good faith but also the hundreds of thousands of children relying on the city’s public schools to provide them a safe place to receive a strong education”.

Union bargaining chair Phyllis Campano, exhausted after one hour of sleep after the marathon negotiation session, declared victory.

If the contract is approved by the union’s board and representative assembly, an all-union vote will likely occur this weekend, said Jonathan Knapp, the union’s president. The district offered raises totaling eight % out of native levy cash in that point. “It’s insane : you either have kids who are foregoing lunch to run around outside or they are just staying in the lunchroom”, Troccoli said. Her husband worked from home one day. Her husband labored from house the third.

The Seattle Teachers Union says its members would be back at work Wednesday. We intend moving forward to work as closely as we can with the union to realize the goals that we have for making the Seattle schools the best place for kids to go to school.

“It’s inconvenient, but not as inconvenient as not getting a raise”, Mark Oberlander said Monday as he dropped off his son, a first-grader, at a Boys & Girls Club. “It’s harder to live in Seattle on a teacher’s salary”. “I don’t want all the teachers commuting 45 minutes in”.

On their way out of a meeting Tuesday, many educators shared the details of their new contract: they’ll get a 9.5 percent increase to their base salaries during the next three years.

“We are ready to get back to school”, Madison Middle School teacher Shana Norton said as she marched. Some $37 million of that will go to Seattle.

Howard had said previously that once classes do resume, the district may have to ask students to attend school on Saturdays, shorten holidays, or end the school year at a later date to make up for the lost time. “We had students there”, Russell said.

Other unresolved issues included added instructional minutes, teacher evaluations and other items. The union proposed studying the pros and cons of an extended school day.