Article snippet: “The Chicago Teachers Union President is the only person we contacted who failed to respond to our inquiries,” wrote Maggie Hickey, a former federal prosecutor hired to help Chicago Public Schools overhaul its Office of Student Protections and Title IX. “We made multiple attempts to contact him by phone, by email, and through his assistant and office, during both our preliminary and follow-up evaluations.” Hickey made that statement about CTU President Jesse Sharkey in a footnote to her 134-page report, titled “Preventing and Responding to Sexual Misconduct against Students in Chicago Public Schools.” Her statement comes as CPS and the teachers’ union are approaching a strike deadline on October 17. CTU spokeswoman Chris Geovanis said two of the emails from Hickey and her team were later found in a junk email folder and never read, reported the Chicago Tribune. “We have an aggressive spam filter and these two emails were never seen or forwarded,” Geovanis said, adding that no one in the union office recalled phone calls or messages from Hickey or her team. “I’m not saying it didn’t happen, but there is no record of a phone call and staff have no recollection,” Geovanis continued. “We’re disappointed that once again we missed the opportunity to talk to Ms. Hickey and her team.” According to the Tribune, Sharkey failed to respond to Hickey’s team in 2018 when it had concluded a preliminary report on sexual abuse and harassment of students in the district. “We were ... Link to the full article to read more