The broad success of the 2018–2019 #RedforEd (“Red for Education”) movement in achieving more equitable outcomes for not only teachers but also other constituents in the community has generated interest in the role of teacher strikes in defending the common good. My article contributes to this conversation by interpreting the demands made by teachers and paraprofessionals and school-related personnel (PSRPs) in the 2019 Chicago Public Schools (CPS) strike through an ethics of care. Enlisting the notions of caring-for, completion, and competence from care ethics, this analysis elucidates the strike demands–namely, smaller class sizes, more bilingual education teachers and special education teachers, and adequate staffing of PSRPs providing wraparound services for high-needs students–as aiming at securing conditions for CPS faculty to provide better care for their students. This article also brings to light the varied and complex requirements placed on CPS faculty in their caring work in schools and as such, proposes an educator’s ethical commitment to care for students as one plausible reason for some educators to leave the classroom for the picket line. I suggest, further, that educators, by striking, are enacting a political form of caring termed caring-with alongside fellow citizens and advocating collective responsibility in caring for all persons as care receivers and care givers. The 2019 CPS strike can therefore be seen as a response not only to disinvestment in public schools and teachers, but to the broader crisis of care deficit and democratic deficit in society.

2018-2019年“ RedforEd”（“红色代表教育”）运动不仅为教师而且为社区中的其他选民取得更公平的成果，并取得了广泛的成功，这引起了人们对教师罢工在捍卫共同利益中的作用的兴趣。我的文章通过讲究伦理来解释2019年芝加哥公立学校（CPS）罢工中教师和准专业人士以及学校相关人员（PSRP）提出的要求，从而为此次对话做出了贡献。招募关怀，完成和能力的概念从护理道德方面，该分析阐明了罢工要求，即班级规模较小，双语教育老师和特殊教育老师更多，以及PSRP的人员配备充足，为高需求学生提供环绕式服务，目的是确保CPS教职员工能够提供条件更好地照顾他们的学生。本文还揭示了CPS教师在学校中的照料工作中所面临的各种复杂要求，因此提出了教育者对学生的关怀的道德承诺，这是某些教育者离开教室去纠察队的一个合理原因。我进一步建议，教育工作者应通过敲击，制定一种政治形式的关怀，称为关怀与同胞一起倡导集体责任，照料所有人，成为照料者和照料者。因此，2019年CPS罢工不仅可以视为对公立学校和教师投资减少的回应，而且可以应对社会护理短缺和民主赤字的更广泛危机。