Thank you to the brave educators who shared their stories this morning about the issues they faced in working with the mayor and CPS for accommodations. Ms. Dorado at Henry ES is recovering from a bone marrow transplant with complications to treat her chronic myeloid leukemia.

CPS had originally approved her accommodation to work remotely through the end of the school year, but then for some reason, forced her to reapply and has yet to approve, even though she remains acutely immunocompromised and needs to be vaccinated for all viruses again.

Ms. Mahoney, a former clerk at Whittier ES, worked as a bilingual school clerk for CPS for almost 30 years until she had a catastrophic car accident in 2017 that left her requiring a wheelchair. Whittier has no wheelchair access, like roughly two out of three CPS schools.

Her current school, Byrne, indicates it cannot afford her next year, and she is struggling on her own to find work in a school that can accommodate her wheelchair.
Here both of their stories here. https://fb.watch/4QcqoeXL8o/ 

For the most part, Mayor Lightfoot and CPS leadership aren't granting accommodations. Educators receiving cancer treatment should not have their accommodation requests refused, while others with vulnerable family members receive no word from the district.

Working conditions are learning conditions, and to improve both, Chicago public school educators, students and families need district leaders to do better. And be better.