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<\/p>\nParents voice concerns over possibility of Philadelphia teachers strike <\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n Parents voice concerns over possibility of Philadelphia teachers strike<\/p>\n 02:34<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Negotiations continue between the School District of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers union. Still, the threat of a possible strike is worrying parents and students<\/a> who are preparing for a school year that starts in less than two weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n At the final stop of the back-to-school bus tour<\/a> on Friday at the Roosevelt Mall, parents told CBS News Philadelphia the strike is a concern.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I’m a nurse, so I have to go to work. I have patients that’s counting on me,” said Michelle Fleurant, who is the mother of two second-graders. “So if the school is going on strike, so I’m going to have to stay home with my kids. I won’t be able to give my patients the proper care that they need.”<\/p>\n Fleurant says her kids’ education will also be affected if a strike shuts down the school.<\/p>\n “I guess we’re going to have to take it one day at a time,” said Fleurant.<\/p>\n PFT<\/a>, the union representing approximately 14,000 city educators and staff, is threatening to strike<\/a> once its labor contract expires on Aug. 31.<\/p>\n CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n The union and School District of Philadelphia are currently negotiating, but the two sides are said to remain far apart on issues such as wages, benefits and working conditions.<\/p>\n Serena Cardona said it would be a huge disappointment for the new school year to start only for the students to get sent back home a week later. \u00a0<\/p>\n Cardona, who attended the back-to-school event at the mall with her nieces, said they are eager to get back, but admitted it’s hard to prepare for a year with the uncertainty.\u00a0<\/p>\n “They want to go back to school, but when they go back in there, they are they going to be back out of school?” Cardona said.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n More from CBS News\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parents voice concerns over possibility of Philadelphia teachers strike Parents voice concerns over possibility of Philadelphia teachers strike…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":150786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,13915,1448,2830,1311,10774,6807,67249,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-150785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-back-to-school","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-school-district-of-philadelphia","14":"tag-strike","15":"tag-teacher-strike","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115039092752730239","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"philadelphia-federationof-teachers-strike-preps.jpg](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/philadelphia-federationof-teachers-strike-preps.jpg#.jpeg\")
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