In-person classes in Chicago Public Schools have resumed Wednesday after the Chicago Teachers Union’s House of Delegates approved a return plan.
The Chicago Tribune reports that in addition to a return to in-person teaching, the plan the House of Delegates approved will set conditions by which an individual school would return to remote learning.
Classes in the school system have been halted since last week. There will be no Tuesday classes--the fifth day of cancellation--but teachers will report to schools for planning.
Teachers union Vice President Stacy Davis Gates called the agreement “the only modicum of safety” in district schools.
Union leaders had argued that teaching remotely was preferable to losing more instruction time altogether.
Districtwide, about 7,500 students and nearly 2,100 adults are in isolation because they tested positive or in quarantine because they came in contact with an infected person, according to district figures.
