Chicago Teachers Strike.

Years ago, this was a common post-Labor Day occurence. 
I went to a south suburban high school, wasn't directly affected, just observed that the city parents who cared enough about their children's education often got their kids in using an auntie or grandparents' address within our district boundaries. 
Sometimes these fellow students lived with their new guardians; sometimes they took the bus south in the morning and got dropped off at the RTA stop down the street from the school. 

You hope the city leaders get it figured out soon.   Put the kids first and all...

Working as a summer reporter at the Daily Calumet/Southtown Economist Lansing bureau in '88, we ran a front-page picture of a young man sweating in his seat at CVS -- Chicago Vocational School -- alongside my story of the kids broasting in un-air-conditioned classrooms in the middle of June, making up for the month (19 days) missed because of striking teachers in the fall of the school year...

I'm sure I still have it with my clippings.  He was a heavyset fellow, and you could kind of boil down the whole miserable affair -- the power play of bucks and pride -- to that one representative face.

I don't know if newspapers still cover stories like that -- if anyone leaves the office anymore and looks to see how real, unknown everyday people are affected.  You hope the city leaders can get this thing re-solved soon...

Maybe pull a big Reagan/TSA move,
let the striking teachers go like he did the air traffic controllers, and bring in eager young replacements -- freshly minted teachers out of work with their ideals still intact enough to cross the picket lines?

The mayor has recently taken on a temp job doing PAC fundraising for the presidential election, but I'm confident he understands that doing the job -- not just winning the right to serve as the leader responsible for getting the job done -- matters now more than ever.

Even if more and more schools are air-conditioned now...

ADDED:
Apparently they're keeping the school buildings open to feed and shelter the children.  Here's a precious statement, so real it's kind of sad:

“They’re not hurting the teachers, they’re hurting us,” said Ta’Shara Edwards, a 16-year-old student at Robeson High School on the city’s South Side. She said her mother made her come to class to do homework because so she “wouldn’t suck up her light bill.”