From the Guardian
Gary Younge in Chicago
guardian.co.uk,
After months of deadlock and four days of strike action, Chicago teachers appeared on Thursday to be close to a deal with City Hall which would have children back to school by the beginning of next week.
Tuesday’s deadlock appears to have been broken after Chicago Public Schools officials offered a revised contract, conceding several key points regarding teacher evaluations.
Union negotiators who claimed on Tuesday that CPS claims of being close to a deal were “lunacy” left talks on Wednesday night very upbeat. Asked to use a scale of one to 10 regarding the chances of a deal being reached on Thursday, Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis said: “I’m a nine.”
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