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JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): And we head back to Chicago and the national spotlight focused on a teachers strike in the nation's third largest school system.
Chicago teachers walked the picket lines for a second day as contract talks resumed. The union spokeswoman said the teachers had agreed to just six of 49 articles in the proposed contract.
One of the most contentious remains the issue of tying teacher evaluations to student test results. Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel has pushed that idea and other reforms.
And on Monday, he drew support from an unlikely quarter. In Portland, Ore., Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan said, "This teachers union strike is unnecessary and wrong. We know that Rahm is not going to support our campaign, but on this issue and this day, we stand with Mayor Rahm Emanuel."
The man at the top of the Republican ticket, Mitt Romney, criticized the strikers and accused President Obama of siding with them. But Mayor Emanuel, the president's former chief of staff, rejected any attempt to use the strike as a means to attack his one-time boss.
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