CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is touting a preliminary agreement with the teachers union over COVID-19 safety protocols. It could avert a strike in the nation’s third-largest school district. Lightfoot announced the latest proposal Sunday. It includes more vaccinations for teachers. It also pushes back the start of in-person classes and phases them in. The first wave could start this week. Both sides have been negotiating for months over a plan to gradually bring back students in the roughly 340,000-student district. The schools went remote nearly a year ago. The Chicago Teachers Unions isn't calling it an agreement yet, saying it has to be approved by members.
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks to reporters after visiting preschool classrooms at Dawes Elementary School in Chicago, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. Monday was the first day of optional in-person learning for preschoolers and some special education students in Chicago Public Schools after going remote last March due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, Pool)
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