(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- An Illinois Republican legislative leader is calling on Gov. JB Pritzker to take an active role in helping resolve the COVID-related standoff between the Chicago Teachers Union and the Lightfoot Administration.
Pritzker isn’t directly involved in talks concerning when and how Chicago Public Schools students will resume in-class learning after classes were canceled earlier this week.
But House Republican leader Jim Durkin said the Democrat should be involved, for the sake of the children.
He noted state government presides over all school budgets in Illinois and Pritzker should have a better relationship with the teachers union than Mayor Lori Lightfoot does.
“He needs to use the leverage that he has in this position to tell people, ‘Get this thing done and negotiate, and let’s move to a closure,’” Durkin said. “But if anybody has influence with the Chicago Teachers Union, it is JB Pritzker.”
Durkin is the guest on this weekend’s “At Issue,” which airs 9:30 p.m. Sunday.
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