Over the weekend members of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) voted to refuse to return to their classrooms until after vaccination against COVID-19. Chicago Public Schools (CPS), which had been calling such a vote an "illegal strike" has responded by moving the return to classroom date from Monday, January 25th to Wednesday, January 27th.
Education Week has information on the vote. Per Education Week, CTU saw 86% of its membership vote with 71% of participants voting to continue teaching from home. According to CTU, when kindergarten and special education teachers were ordered back on Jan 4th, only 19% of the students whose families had indicated they would send their students back actually showed up.
Discussions between CTU and CPS remain ongoing, however CPS announced that K-8th grade teachers who had been scheduled to report on Monday would have that date back until Wednesday according to a 5 Chicago, the cities' local NBC affiliate, report. Students are still expected to return to classrooms on February 1st.
CPS has said that it will be able to begin administering vaccinations in February for staff who are not eligible for the state's larger 1A or 1B role-out. This, of course, raises the question why schools would be opening up with vaccination so close?
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