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September 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Karen Lewis, president of Chicago Teachers Union, said on Sunday that after extensive debate, the union’s House of Delegates decided not to suspend the strike because the majority of its members wanted additional time to discuss the weekend deal with officials from the nation’s third largest school district.
“Our members are not happy,” Lewis said. “They want to know if there is anything more they can get.”
She said the union’s delegates will meet again on Tuesday, and the soonest classes are likely to resume is Wednesday, which means that there would be no classes for more than 350,000 students around the city for a second week.
As many as 29,000 teachers went on a strike action last week amid stalemated contract talks between Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the CTU. The protesters demand Mayor Rahm Emanuel withdraw some of his educational reforms, which they say place job security at peril.
The two sides announced on Friday that they had agreed on outlines of a compromise on a new contract, though teachers union leaders said then that any decision to end the strike or not would be determined this weekend.
Emanuel, who also holds a dual Israeli citizenship and is considered as an aggressive and influential fundraiser in the Democratic Party, has also sought a longer school day and a longer school year.
According to a report released by the White House, as a result of state and local budget cuts, the US has slashed more than 3,000,000 education jobs since June 2009.
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