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Good morning, I don’t have to tell you school leaders in Chicago Public Schools are busy people.

The Chicago Principals and Administrators Association (CPAA), the union representing Chicago’s principals and assistant principals, extend

School leaders now face the impossible task of opening schools without knowing whether the federal funds they relied on will arrive—or when.

I’ve been feeling kind of white lately. Maybe it’s some of that white fragility Robin DiAngelo warns us about, but more and more often when I hear somebody say “disproportionately people of color,” it sounds like they’re also saying poor and working-class white people don’t matter. That makes me queasykind of fragile, I guess.

Collective bargaining agreements. Union contracts helped protect more jobs, proportionally, against this modern-day plague. Just another reason to join the union.

We hate to sound like a broken record whose needle keeps skipping and playing the same tune over and over again, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ annual survey of union density and workers’ wages keeps playing the same tune: If you want higher pay, join a union.

Our tax dollars should be used to create jobs and advance production here at home.
Chicago school principals, assistant principals and school leaders are calling for a school reopening pilot program.