(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is continuing her isolation at home after testing positive for COVID-19, but neither she nor Chicago Teachers Union leaders will likely be thrilled with comments Thursday from the newly-elected mayor of New York.
Eric Adams told reporters he's now considering a remote option for the city's public schools and said he has a constructive relationship with the head of New York's teachers union.
Adams said he didn't envision a dispute like the one that shut down classes in Chicago as the CTU battled the Lightfoot Administration over COVID-19 safeguards for in-person learning.
"People are surprised to see how well we're doing. This is not Chicago. This is New York, where we are communicating with each other because we're both emotionally intelligent," the New York mayor said, according to a tweet by New York Times City Hall bureau chief Emma G. Fitzsimmons.
Mayor Eric Adams on the teachers' union president: "People are surprised to see how well we're doing. This is not Chicago. This is New York where we are communicating with each other because we're both emotionally intelligent." He says he's open to a temporary remote option.
— Emma G. Fitzsimmons (@emmagf) January 13, 2022
Chicago Public Schools classes were canceled five days as CPS and CTU hammered out a deal. Neither side was seen as a clear winner as parents were left in the lurch during the deadlock. Students returned to buildings on Wednesday.
