Chicago Teachers Union "extremely close" to contract settlement

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : "In these times of a massive assault on public education by Donald Trump and the oligarchs, we need the highest quality, strongest and most engaging community schools," said Marc Kaplan, an organizer with Northside Action for Justice, who stressed the importance of a transformative local contract in light of intensifying federal attacks on public education.
56% : Minutes before Kaplan spoke, Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education.
49% : The new contract will require greater investment in public education, which depends on a budget amendment that would allow the school district to cover the additional costs incurred by the new contract as well as pension payments for teachers and paraprofessionals.
42% : She was joined at the podium by dozens of CTU members who also came to the meeting after working in a school system damaged by decades of local and federal defunding of public education.
32% : "As Trump and Musk bring chaos into our school system, we need a contract and we need it today," Williams added.

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