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CPS Clerk Who Uses Wheelchair Fighting To Keep Job
The union believes Mahoney is being unfairly penalized by the district's lack of accessibility.
CHICAGO (CBS) — Friends, parents and teachers rallied around Judy Mahoney outside Byrne Elementary in Garfield Ridge on Tuesday. CPS moved Mahoney to Byrne after she was hit by a drunk driver in 2017, and left paralyzed from the waist down. At the time, she was working as a school clerk at Whittier Elementary in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood, but that building is not wheelchair accessible.
Now the Chicago Teachers Union says her job at Byrne was just cut due to a lack of funding, while her old school can still pay for a clerk. The union believes Mahoney is being unfairly penalized by the district’s lack of accessibility.
