HUFFINGTON POST: …A deal is on the table Saturday night to end a nearly weeklong Chicago teachers strike, though classes could still be canceled Monday as the union’s House of Delegates reviews the proposal.
If a press release from the Chicago Teachers Union is accurate, Emanuel has given away some of his most prized education reforms to the union to quell the strike. Mitt Romney has tried to paint the strike as a civil war among Democrats, and ending the strike now would quell the fervor before U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan — former CEO of Chicago’s schools — heads into midcountry organized labor territory on his bus tour Monday.
The deal features major concessions from Emanuel, who campaigned to become Chicago’s mayor with a promise to shake up the Windy City’s schools. The contract would count teachers’ students’ standardized test scores toward their evaluations for the minimum percentage allowed by law. The contract would last three years, not four — as of Thursday night, CTU was asking for two but willing to compromise on three, and CPS was not budging on the issue… (more)
