The
Chicago Teachers Union summoned hundreds of its leaders for a Tuesday evening update on the nine-day-old strike but said that negotiators had not yet arrived at a tentative deal to end the walkout at the third-largest U.S. school district.
Chicago's 25,000 public school teachers want a pay increase along with smaller class sizes and more support staff.
The strike is the latest in a recent wave of work stoppages across the
United States by educators who have called for more resources and emphasized the need to help underfunded schools, framing their demands as a call for social justice.