The Chicago Teachers Union House of Delegates is set to meet at 3 p.m. today to discuss, and likely vote on, the proposed deal hashed out by the bargaining teams of CTU and the Chicago Public Schools. As parents, students and teachers all wait to see when, and if, classes will resume, which they could as soon as tomorrow, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) is releasing an ad, set to hit Chicagoland airwaves immediately, thanking the teachers' union "for their fight for students and parents."
Regardless of what happens today with the House of Delegates' vote, PCCC officials say they will continue to run the ad as they see the Chicago teachers' strike as indicative of a national battle between unions and politicians, particularly conservatives like Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who released a statement at the start of the strike blasting CTU.
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The Chicago Teachers Union House of Delegates voted today to suspend
the first teachers' strike in the Windy City since 1987 and the first educator
walkout in a major American city since the one in Detroit back in 2006. Classes will
resume tomorrow for the first time since September 7. Seven classroom days will now have be made up as a result of the strike.
As the Chicago Teachers Union House of Delegates 
With the Chicago Teachers Union strike spilling into its second week,
Gov. Pat Quinn skipped across state lines today for a meeting of
the Midwest U.S.-Japan Association in Minneapolis. The meeting involved
Japanese business leaders “strengthening economic ties to Illinois,”
according to a press release.
The top of the Chicago Public Schools strike contingency plan 