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Chicago teachers suspend strike Union delegates voted overwhelmingly Tuesday night to return to the classrooms after discussing a proposed contract settlement with those in charge of the nation’s third-largest school district.
Sept. 19, 2012
Students walk through the gates of Benjamin E. Mays Academy after Chicago teachers voted to suspend their first strike in 25 years. Union delegates voted on Tuesday night to suspend the walkout after discussing a proposed contract settlement with the nation's third-largest school district.
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Sept. 19, 2012
Student Tiandre Turner makes his way to class at Whitney Young High School in Chicago. Wednesday was the first day back at school for about 350,000 Chicago public school children after more than 26,000 teachers and support staff walked off their jobs on Sept. 10 after the Chicago Teachers Union and the city failed to reach an agreement on compensation, benefits and job security.
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Sept. 19, 2012
Leslie Sabbs-Kizer, right, walks her children Nkai Melton, 8, Akaira Melton, 7, and Khaymya Smith, 3, to Bond Elementary School in Chicago for the first day of classes. As students returned to the classroom Wednesday following a seven-day teachers strike, both sides found reasons to celebrate victory. Mayor Rahm Emanuel secured an extension of Chicago’s school day and empowered principals to hire the teachers they want. Teachers were able to soften a new evaluation process and win some job protections.
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Sept. 19, 2012
Students gather outside Chicago’s Benjamin E. Mays Academy for the first day of school. Everyone involved in the seven-day dispute emerged with an achievement to trumpet: Teachers said the strike sparked an important national conversation about school reform. Union activists said it provided inspiration for public employee unions that have lost ground nationally. And Mayor Rahm Emanuel declared it a boon for students trapped in failing schools.
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Sept. 19, 2012
Mayor Rahm Emanuel greets students as they arrive for school at Frazier International Magnet School in Chicago. "This settlement is an honest compromise," Emanuel said at a news conference. "It means returning our schools to their primary purpose: the education of our children. It means a new day and a new direction for Chicago Public Schools."
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Sept. 19, 2012
Students at Chicago’s Frazier International Magnet School wait outside before the start of the first day of school.
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Sept. 19, 2012
Students return to Chicago’s Whitney Young High School for their first day of the new school year.
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Sept. 19, 2012
Students return to Whitney Young High School in Chicago.
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Sept. 18, 2012
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis speaks at a news conference after union delegates voted to end their strike, which began Sept. 10 after the union failed to reach an agreement with the city on compensation, benefits and job security.
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Sept. 18, 2012
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, right, stands with Chicago Public Schools chief executive Jean-Claud Brizard during a news conference after the teachers union delegates voted to suspend their strike. More than 26,000 Chicago public school teachers and support staff had walked off the job. With about 350,000 students, the Chicago district is the third largest in the United States.
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Sept. 18, 2012
Members of the Chicago Teachers Union celebrate after the delegates voted to suspend the strike.
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Sept. 18, 2012
Mary Edmonds, a member of the Chicago Teachers Union's House of Delegates, celebrates after voting to suspend the strike.
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Sept. 18, 2012
Chicago Teachers Union delegates embrace after voting to suspend their strike.
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Sept. 18, 2012
Tennille Evans, a member of the Chicago Teachers Union's House of Delegates, celebrates.
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Sept. 18, 2012
Teacher Patty Westcott pickets outside Clissold Elementary School in Chicago prior to the vote to suspend the strike.
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Sept. 18, 2012
Teachers picket outside Morgan Park High School in Chicago prior to the vote.
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Sept. 17, 2012
Teachers picket outside Shoop Elementary School in Chicago as a strike by the city’s teachers union heads into its second week.
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Sept. 17, 2012
Smaller, more subdued groups of teachers picket outside Morgan Park High School in Chicago.
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Sept. 17, 2012
Teachers picket outside Morgan Park High School in Chicago.
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Sept. 16, 2012
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, left, listens to CTU Vice President Jesse Sharkey speak at a press conference following a meeting of delegates in Chicago. The teachers union decided Sunday to continue its weeklong strike, saying they needed more time to review a complicated proposal. The continuation of the strike has extended an acrimonious standoff with Mayor Rahm Emanuel over teacher evaluations and job security provisions central to the debate over the future of public education in the United States. Emanuel said he told city attorneys to seek a court order forcing Chicago Teachers Union members back into the classroom, saying the strike was illegal because it endangers the health and safety of students and concerns issues — evaluations, layoffs and recall rights — that state law says cannot be grounds for a work stoppage. “This was a strike of choice and is now a delay of choice that is wrong for our children,” Emanuel said in a written statement.
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Sept. 16, 2012
Chicago Teachers Union lawyer Robert Bloch, left, talks to CTU delegates following a meeting in Chicago.
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Sept. 16, 2012
Chicago Teachers Union councilor Susan Garza raises her fist as she leaves a House of Delegates meeting on the seventh day of their strike in Chicago.
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Sept. 16, 2012
Philomena Johnson, a delegate from Little Village Academy, decorates her car to highlight the need for increased social services in schools before attending a meeting of the Chicago Teachers Union delegates in Chicago.
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Sept. 15, 2012
A young boy holds a placard in support of striking Chicago school teachers as they march after a rally in west Chicago.
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Sept. 15, 2012
Striking Chicago school teachers march after a rally in Chicago.
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Sept. 15, 2012
Striking Chicago school teachers march after a rally.
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Sept. 15, 2012
Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union addresses the crowd during a rally in Chicago. Lewis reminded that although there is a “framework” for an end to their strike, they are still on strike.
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Sept. 15, 2012
Teachers from Wisconsin and Minnesota join striking Chicago teachers during a rally in Chicago.
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Sept. 15, 2012
A protester holds a sign critical of Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel during a rally of striking Chicago school teachers in Chicago.
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Sept. 15, 2012
A young girl plays a toy horn as striking Chicago teachers rally in Chicago.
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Sept. 15, 2012
A woman holds up a sign during a rally of striking Chicago school teachers in Chicago.
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