Starting with a press conference from @CTULocal1 : Union is launching its own tracker of COVID cases. At the moment, there is no agreement between the union and district when cases occur.
.@CTULocal1 Stacy Davis Gates says the union is concerned about the idea of bringing back preschool students and some students with disabilities. "We need more clarity and transparency..."
The Chicago Teachers Union says CPS would have to spend $1 billion to make schools safe to open.
Also CTU is urging changes to remote learning. "We need more flexibility, we need more empathy..." CTU VP Stacy Davis Gates.
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Now listening to CPS press conference about bringing preschool students and some students with disabilities back to in person school.
Dr. Alison Arwady, head of Chicago Department of Public Health, is now arguing that it is okay to bring students back to school. "CDPH offers our full support to the phase in plan."
She says CDPH has aggressively investigated any case that has to do with a child. She says they have looked at cases of the thousands of students who are in school (private and parochial) ... she says their cases have been less than the public at large.