Wrapped in blankets and hunched over laptops, a handful of locked-out Chicago Public Schools lecturers arrange their faraway school rooms out of doors the Belmont Cragin house of Chicago Board of Education President Miguel del Valle Wednesday. A couple of mins earlier than, they’d knocked on del Valle’s entrance door, however there was once no resolution. “He has the power to call a meeting, he has the power to speak to the mayor. He has the mayor’s ear,” mentioned Quetzalli Castro, a seventh-grade instructor on the within sight Prieto Math and Science Academy. Castro was once there to give a boost to about 100 CPS workers district-wide who nonetheless haven’t proven as much as their colleges this week as required