Lori Lightfoot: “Remote learning, for any period of time is off the table from a system wide standpoint.”

I get that people are scared. This Omicron surge is real. And we're doing everything that we can across our city to mitigate it.

We've got to make sure that we use every tool in our toolkit. And it's -- soft power is more, much more effective than the hard power of law enforcement for this particular problem.

I think, look, at the very beginning it was just getting out the basic information about the various clinical trials, the results of the effectiveness.

This is an unnecessary and illegal work stoppage. And I've drawn the line, we are not going to remote for the whole system. It's completely unnecessary.