National Education Association

Thousands of Chicago school kids out of class as teachers go on strike

Global Politics

When the Chicago Public Schools teachers and leadership failed to reach an agreement on a new contract Sunday night, the district’s teachers went out on strike. That left the parents of 350,000 school kids struggling with where their kids would go, and who would watch them.

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