By Nader Issa Chicago Sun Times
Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union have landed a tentative agreement to reopen high schools, setting the stage for thousands of teenage students to return to classrooms Monday for the first time in more than a year.
The deal will still need to be approved by the union’s 25,000 teachers and staff. The CTU’s House of Delegates convened Thursday afternoon to review the terms of the agreement and voted with 83% of delegates in favor of holding a ratification vote by the full membership this weekend. The 600-member governing body also officially ended the two-day labor action that saw high school teachers working remotely instead of in their schools as ordered by the district.
A CTU committee of rank-and-file teachers and staff who have been involved in bargaining unanimously recommended approval of the agreement, the union said.
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