City officials reacted after the Chicago Teachers Union voted to resume remote learning.
on Wednesday that the virus was “raging through the city” and that city officials had failed to deliver on “basic demands” for adequate staffing and covid-19 testing to address the healthto parents, Pedro Martinez, CEO of Chicago Public Schools, framed the decision by teachers as a refusal to report to work.
umerous Chicago teachers tweeted that they’d been locked out of Google Classroom, the platform used by the city to conduct remote learning.Cesar Rodriguez, a spokesperson for Mayor Lightfoot, referred all questions to Chicago Public Schools . A CPS spokesperson told Gizmodo: “We are working on this and will get back you as soon as we have something to share.
, which caters specifically to students that require remote learning for medical reasons, had also been locked out of the system.“We want to have a safe environment for our students, for our communities; this disease affects a lot of people; and we want safe working conditions for ourselves as well. But we can provide these services remotely, if needed, during a spike in covid, which is what’s happening right now,” he said.
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