Rolling Good evening. My name is Adam Laredo, L O R E D O. I'm a Middle school English teacher at Hamilton Elementary. My family has worked for Chicago Health Schools for three generations and I can honestly say that right now, the board and Mary had the opportunity to provide this schools that our students deserve. Schools that are trying with the public education, ideals of equity and education, a nurse in every building, a library building and wraparound services that meet the needs of our students. This bargaining team has worked for. Months and good faith and since nine AM alone hoping to have a contract that provides that for the spread of schools for the city and for our students ideals that this mayor ran on. It is time for the board to put it in writing. I'm Michelle Gunderson M I C H E L E Gunderson G U N D R SON I have worries I want to go to my classroom on Thursday morning. I was born to teach but I wasn't born to be a teacher, a nurse and a social worker all put together. It is impossible and we're at a critical juncture right now. We want schools that are filled with possibilities for our children, not places that are impossible with the work of adults and children alike. So what I say. That we have language that we want in our contract about staff and about class size but it has to be put in writing or we will have to be on strike. I do wanna be in my classroom on Thursday morning but I'm resolute about these issues. My name is Jacquelyn Price, War J, A C Q U E L Y M P R I C E D W, A R D As you can see, I'm an African-American veteran teacher that has committed her life to teaching children at Bond Elementary School in the heart of Inglewood. Well, I have witnessed things unheard of bodies on the Street. But at the conclusion of this day of negotiations, I can see a pathway for the mayor to walk through and keep her promises to the children of Chicago public schools, the staff and teachers of Chicago public Schools and all I want to say, is that walk that path and keep your promises mayor like that. Good evening, my name is Clinton, Washington. I am music teacher, it says elementary school and one of the things I love about Mayor Lightfoot is that she ran as a candidate that stood for change, and she has said that she wants to be known as the mayor that fought poverty. and here we are at a time and a place in this situation. She has an option, we put our money where our mouth is and so for the things that we need for the schools that our students deserve. Writing those wraparound services and those things that our children so desperately need put it in writing. That's what we need. That's our pathway forward so that your dreams is the mayor can become a reality so they are dreams. Educators can be a reality, so there are students can feel safer and more respected and feel as if they're being cared for put it in writing. Good evening, mostly Parker. That's M L S E L E N Last name. Parker P, A R K. I teach at McKinley Elementary School. We're currently our kindergarten. Teachers have 30 - five students in All we need, that's all we want life. What to do is put her words in writing my life. would I want you to take a page from the late great hair, Washington, he said. And I quote promises made promises kept. Any questions it sounds like there was some progress today. Can you? Well, I'll tell you what happened today. we've bargaining we took a break from rally but then we came back and bargaining some more. the board is talking with us now by five staffing. we have their ideas actually written down on paper these ideas of coming across the table but aren't written down and we're getting late in the after the hour is getting late. The process is is getting towards the point where we're gonna have to summarize what's happened and communicate to our. Schools so that they can vote teachers need to like see see the Red proposals and make a decision on this Wednesday coming up. Some of the things that we're talking about today should have been the first things that the mayor was offering to us. The starting point for discussing how you get educational equity in basic education supports is a nurse in every school every day, social worker communities and trauma. So some of the things that we're talking. Now we've been talking about couple of months ago it should have been should have been the first thing, he said. It's been the last time so am I happy with the progress in those areas? Yes but we still haven't writing and we and it's also that process too late to avoid to strike. I'm never gonna say that because we're gonna keep bargaining but I will say that there's a lot of ground that we have to make up and the hours getting late the mayor has a path. And we're dedicated to bargaining good faith because we want to sell this contract without striking possible, but what I will say to be clear that if if what it takes to get real improvements, long-lasting improvements for the school children of Chicago and for our members who have to go to school everyday and work if if if strength is what it takes, and that's something that we're willing to do in order to get what we need so everyone. Talking about Thursday as the deadline realistically to avoid any kind of workshop. You have to get something tomorrow. Because I understand that if you know if if something comes in writing you know at midnight on Wednesday that would require us to get our House. you know send out a notice at two in the morning and get our House in four morning and where to vote and then turn around and go to work at sex So it's just not possible. you know the way the mechanism works is that we have an eight hundred body representative Democratic body that needs to get together. So that's happening on Wednesday. the ultimate the members of the scenery. We get the final say about what's on offer and if that offers enough for people to say yup that looks like an agreement. that would be that would be a tentative agreement and members would be a work on Thursday If it's not there right now. Can you give me the timeline in the next two days like you go to negotiations win tomorrow. We'll be negotiating all day tomorrow. Nine AM. We'll start the first thing in the morning and then and then at some point we're gonna have to stop bargaining in order to get a summary out because people are gonna need to be able to beat what's on by tomorrow night. By Wednesday, I mean, I mean basically people are gonna are people gonna wanna read what's happening, discuss their schools so that on Wednesday after work people maybe up by the way. there's a boat on Wednesday to say this is. Two more days. Thank you. Look at yourself.