Chicago Teachers Union

Dyett High School hunger striker Jeanette Ramann collapsed leaving the Board of Education meeting.

The hunger strikers took their protests to Little Black Pearl Art and Design Academy.

Yet Gov. Bruce Rauner was light on specifics on where additional state education funds would come from.

The school, for kids with emotional instability, will not have any teachers or students this year.

"The Teachers' Strike," a novella, has drawn ire from the teachers' union amid new contract talks. 

CPS will cut more than $200 million from its budget and lay off 479 teachers, officials said.

"To take a 7 percent pay cut is strike-worthy," CTU President Karen Lewis said of a "pension pickup."

"We're all fighting for scraps," said Hearst Elementary teacher Rachel Davies.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel also named Frank Clark to replace David Vitale as head of the Board of Education.

Neighborhood schools will see $60 million in cuts, while charter schools see $30 million in gains.

One teacher said Mayor Rahm Emanuel "is deeply embedded in Novocaine" and "doesn't feel the pain."

Teachers said they'd accept no raise, but wanted concessions on grading, testing and class size.

Parent and community groups are organizing three forums to inform the public on how talks are going.

Anthony Napolitano campaigned in the nonpartisan race as a Republican supported by unions.

Napolitano has three children who attend Chicago Public Schools.