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Chicago Teachers are on Strike. The Reasons Why Come Down to Politics, Time and Money.
DATE: October 16, 2019
Teachers at Chicago Public Schools will go on strike Thursday after the Chicago Teachers Union and the city failed to settle on a new contract before the union-imposed deadline.
“Contracts are policy documents, they dictate a substantial amount of district school policy, and they always have,” said Katharine Strunk, an education policy professor at Michigan State University. The CTU’s demands still have advanced beyond bread-and-butter concerns, she said.
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