The CTU’s latest offer would allow the district to phase in changes to class sizes and staffing over the life of the contract.

After recently telling fellow trustees to ‘shut up,’ Trustee Susan Buchanan’s comments spread on social media. She also told Mayor Anan Abu-Taleb, a native of Palestine, that his “skin was white enough,” when he tried to intervene.

Comment: The socialist publication seems mighty proud of the CTU. “CTU has established a new gold standard for unions, teaching labor what a “rank-and-file” strategy means in practice.”

Comment: A can-kick and a horrible idea in our view, but Chicago will be tempted.

The CTU won’t agree to the money until it gets the other items on what Jackson calls its “social justice bargaining” agenda.

That includes everything from affordable housing and a dramatic increase in “community schools” to enforceable caps on class size, mandatory hiring of support personnel written into the contract and more teacher preparation time with potential to shorten the elementary school day.

A threatened strike by Chicago teachers would be the latest test of teachers’ unions strategy to expand contract talks beyond members’ pay or benefits and into broader classroom issues.

“This is a very, very good example of the difference using a racial equity lens when creating laws and codes for this village and not doing, how something can gently become a real problem,” said one resident. And from another: “If we’re truly a progressive community, we should be limiting police interaction.”

Comment: Chicago not mentioned, but it’s no doubt another factor challenging the city. “For the fourth consecutive year, U.S. census figures have shown that thousands of millennials and younger Gen Xers are leaving big cities.”

Lightfoot said she has two priorities for the veto session: a casino fix and authorization to raise Chicago’s real-estate transfer tax on high-end home sales.