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Chicago Teachers Union members are voting on their leadership this week — a high-stakes decision at a challenging juncture for the country’s public educators.

The union agreed to pay $50,000 in damages

Between pay gaps, the pandemic, growing class sizes and legislative directives, “the pressure on teachers right now is so formidable,” one expert said

Thousands of teachers and other school workers in Sacramento walked off the job Wednesday as the California capital became the second big United States school district this month to see a work stoppage over pay and staffing shortages as a teachers strike in Minneapolis entered its third week.

Between pay gaps, the pandemic, growing class sizes and legislative directives, “the pressure on teachers right now is so formidable,” one expert said.

Between pay gaps, the pandemic, growing class sizes and legislative directives, “the pressure on teachers right now is so formidable,” one expert said.

Jessica Mueller was in tears after she heard Monday night that Minneapolis teachers were officially going to strike the following day.

During one week this January, a group of educators in the Washington Teachers’ Union posted selfies to Twitter from inside classrooms, accompanying the images with #It’sNotSafe. They rallied outside D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office alongside substitute teachers, who were demanding higher pay.