Thursday, September 13, 2012

Back to school for Chicago. Nice extension of summer vacation for the kids.


I can see the first writing assignments of the school year now, "How did you spend the vacation extension?"

7:05 a.m. CDT, September 13, 2012

Negotiators (click title to entry - thank you) trying to settle the Chicago teachers strike say more than 350,000 students could be back in the classroom by Friday.

 “We feel like we’re in a pretty good place, we’ve made a lot of progress today,” Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis said as she left contract talks shortly before midnight Wednesday. “We spent a lot of time on evaluation. We still have a lot of work to do but it seems like we’re definitely coming much closer together than we were certainly this morning.”

Lewis said parents should not bank on classes Thursday but said, “Let’s hope for Friday.”

Chicago school board president David Vitale agreed significant progress had been made during talks Wednesday....