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Parents, unions and teachers urge CPS to halt custodial layoffs and protect school services
Summary
Union leaders and dozens of parents, teachers and community members urged the Chicago Board of Education to preserve custodial and support staff jobs and to press Springfield and City Hall for additional revenue rather than cutting school services.
Dozens of parents, teachers and union leaders told the Chicago Board of Education on Aug. 13 that proposed or planned cuts to custodial and other school support staff would harm students and communities already carrying long histories of underfunding.
Union representatives from the Chicago Teachers Union and Service Employees International Union framed the public testimony at the Agenda Review Committee meeting. Jackson Potter, CTU vice president and a history teacher, praised recent contract wins but urged the district to challenge past financial practices that he said have harmed schools: “We can’t balance the budget on their backs because there’s always been two…
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