Topic - Jesse Sharkey

“We wound up with something at the end of the day that was as much as we could get right now, and it was going to be enough,” CTU President Jesse Sharkey said, according to WBEZ Chicago.

Chicago classrooms to reopen Wednesday after a bitter feud over remote learning in virus surge →

"The mayor is being relentless, but she's being relentlessly stupid, she's being relentlessly stubborn," Sharkey said, playing on a reference the former prosecutor mayor made about refusing to "relent" in negotiations. "She's relentlessly refusing to seek accommodation and we're trying to find a way to get people back in school."

Chicago Teachers Union OKs plan to resume in-person teaching →