How Are CPS Teachers Getting Post-Strike Makeup Days Off? – CBS Chicago

First, the Chicago Teachers Union demanded more makeup days for time spent on the picket line – and they got some of them, exactly as they wanted. But now, CBS 2 Political Investigator Dana Kozlov has learned that teachers won’t be at work anyway on many of those days – and the Chicago Public Schools system is scrambling to find substitutes.
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Governor of Alderaan
4 years ago

Teachers are getting makeup days off because they are in charge and can give themselves any benefit they want

Rick
4 years ago

There’s little accounting on days off when my wife was a teacher she called friends to sub, the day off was totally off the time sheet books.

nixit
4 years ago

Saw this coming a mile away. Teachers begged for make-up days. We all knew the quality of teaching on those make-up days would not be worth the cost, even if they did show up. Yet Lightfoot succumbed anyway.

Who’s gonna be the first person to FOIA the CPS teacher attendance numbers for the 1st day after the strike? It was a Friday.

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