All sides are declaring victory, including Mayor Brandon Johnson who on Tuesday proclaimed: “It will always be worth the fight if the people of this city get to benefit from that fight.”

The Chicago Public Schools and Chicago Teachers Union have come to a tentative contract agreement after months of negotiations.

The Chicago Teachers Union shared some details of what their new tentative agreement with CPS contains, including what the district calls the largest raise for teachers in 13 years.

A key union committee threw its support behind a contract agreement with Chicago Public Schools on Monday. It includes lower class size limits, adds more librarians and extra funding for sports.

In the end, the leadership of the Chicago Teachers Union accepted a contract that largely mirrored what Chicago Public Schools leadership had offered for months. The spin, of course, from CTU and Mayor Brandon Johnson depicts this four-year labor deal as “transformative” for Chicago’s beleaguered public school system.

The Chicago Teachers Union’s team of 65 educators voted in favor of a proposed settlement Monday evening that wrapped up close to a year of negotiations with the school district. Tuesday morning, CTU celebrated its hard-fought gains for students and educators.