Chicago Reaches 'Tentative' Deal With Teachers, 350,000 Students Expected to be in Classroom on Monday

Chicago students should expect to be attentive in their classrooms on Monday.

One week after Chicago teachers went on strike for the first time in 25 years, both sides have reportedly reached a "tentative agreement."

Chicago's 29,000 public school teachers and 350,000 students are expected to be back in the classroom on Monday.

Robert Bloch, the attorney for the teacher's union, said negotiators had reached "the outlines of an agreement on the major issues."

"We are hopeful that we will have a complete agreement done by Sunday," he said.

David Vitale, the president of the Chicago Board of Education, said parents should be prepared to have their kids in school on Monday."

"We had what we think is pretty good movement, but of course the board always has to do a little bit of backsliding," Karen Lewis, the president of the Chicago Teachers Union, told reporters Thursday outside the Hilton on Michigan Ave., the site of the negotiations.

Negotiators reportedly worked into the early hours of Friday morning before breaking for the night; they then returned to the bargaining table today at 9 a.m.