3:30 p.m. Teachers rally could also be transferring onto Lake Shore Drive
It seems the civil disobedience coaching the CTU hosted yesterday could turn out to be useful for members at present. As hanging academics and assist workers attempt to transfer their rally onto Lake Shore Drive, a Chicago police officer instructed them he couldn’t shield them in the event that they deviate from a protected route and onto Lake Shore Drive.
“If you go otherwise, you all saw Charlottesville,” the officer stated to strikers. “If someone hurts you, that’s on you. I cannot protect you.”
The rally began Friday afternoon at Buckingham Fountain.
— Matthew Hendrickson and Alison Martin
2:55 p.m. Is a academics deal shut? Both sides clamming up a very good signal, skilled says
Chicago Teachers Union leaders had little to say Friday as they emerged briefly from intense contract talks at Malcolm X College — and that’s a very good factor.
Several CTU members took a break from negotiations at round 1 p.m. to seize a number of instances of bottled water from the again of a automotive parked outdoors the Near West Side faculty.
Asked how issues have been going, the CTU’s Christel Williams-Hayes stated it was “smooth sailing” and left it at that.
Mitch Dudek talked to a labor skilled in regards to the newest in Friday’s negotiations. Read his full report right here.
1:47 p.m. IHSA approves eight-game rule waiver, Simeon is again within the state playoffs
The Illinois High School Association board authorized a movement to waive the eight-game rule for Simeon’s soccer staff on Friday. The board upheld the three days of apply rule.
Simeon’s scheduled Week 2 sport in opposition to an out-of-state staff fell by way of, leaving them a sport in need of the IHSA’s eight-games performed requirement for playoff qualification. The faculty utilized for the waivers on Wednesday.
According to IHSA strike bylaws, if soccer practices have been terminated for seven days (excluding Sundays) a staff could not resume competitors till after three days of apply. The groups can’t apply if there isn’t a faculty. Thursday was the seventh day the groups have missed apply, in order that rule kicks in.
Read the total story from Michael O’Brien, who has been masking the strike’s affect on highschool sports activities.
1:06 p.m. Student athletes attempt to meet with Lightfoot at City Hall
A bunch of 30 Chicago Public Schools athletes and college students arrived at City Hall to talk with Mayor Lori Lightfoot shortly after midday on Friday.
The group, led by Simeon soccer gamers, introduced its intention to point out up on Wednesday. They wished to voice their frustration over the affect the Chicago Teachers Union strike is having on CPS college students and athletes.
Lightfoot left City Hall simply minutes earlier than they arrived.
“I think she’s afraid,” Simeon senior Khalyl Warren stated. “She is showing fear. But it is ok. We assumed she would be here to say a couple words, say something that we wanted to hear. Something for our teachers, something for us. But if she walked away, she walked away.”
The group, which included college students from Simeon, Bogan, Phillips, King and Phoenix, helps the CTU’s strike and believes the town ought to meet the union’s calls for. Three college students gave ready statements in entrance of cameras, detailing why the strike wants to finish now and why they want nurses of their faculties.
— Michael O’Brien
12:20 p.m. U. of I. makes particular provisions for CPS college students forward of Nov. 1 early motion deadline
With Chicago public excessive faculties closed for the seventh straight day Friday because the academics strike continues, college students within the midst of the faculty software course of have misplaced entry to academics, counselors and even their tutorial information.
On Thursday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot famous in an unrelated media convention the hardship the strike was placing on college students making use of to varsity, nothing that CPS was not too long ago pressured to cancel a school standardized testing session — doubtlessly placing some college students prone to lacking scholarship software deadlines.
Some universities have provided…