Fired Black Educators Reach $9.25M Settlement with CPS
“Ending nearly a decade of litigation, Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union have reached a $9.25 million settlement over the layoffs of entire school staffs that disproportionately affected hundreds of Black educators on the South and West sides. About 413 teachers and,” reports Nader Issa in Chicago Sun Times.
“The cases stemmed from several rounds of layoffs at 18 schools from 2012 to 2014 under a so-called turnaround policy which targeted schools that had been put on probation due to substandard test scores and attendance. Many of those schools were in Black communities, and an uneven number of Black educators lost their jobs.”
