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National teacher union president to tour public schools, address school safety in Chicago
Weingarten’s visit to Chicago comes on the heels of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s recent admission of deficiencies in her administration’s plan to reopen Chicago’s public schools for in-person learning, and the tragic death of two mothers at Jensen Elementary from COVID-19.
read moreJensen Elementary LSC convenes ‘Speak-Out for Safety’ after two school mothers die of COVID
Mayor’s CPS team at last agrees to begin COVID testing at West Side School after most classes forced to quarantine, while mother complained of lax contact tracing before her death. 4:00 p.m. TODAY, Tuesday, Sept. 28: LSC Speak-Out for Safety with Jensen Local School Council members, parents, educators. Jensen Elementary, 3030 W. Harrison St. CHICAGO, […]4PM Tuesday: Jensen Elementary LSC Speak-Out for Safety
Last week, eleven out of seventeen classrooms at Jensen Elementary were in quarantine. Elected officials joined parents, students and rank and file CTU members at Jensen last Wednesday to demand safety improvements that the mayor’s CPS team continues to ignore. Today, we are in mourning with the Jensen school community, with COVID claiming the life […]CTU statement on shooting death of Simeon Career Academy student
Our union will be working with the CTU Foundation Quest Center to offer trauma support and loss circles to Simeon students and staff.Your Union is Here to Help
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Same Storm, Different Boats: The Safe and Equitable Conditions For Reopening CPS in 2020-21
Parents, students, and teachers want to go back to school in person and want to do so safely. Will that be possible in September? Is there a number of educator or student deaths that we are willing to accept in order to have in-person school? Are CPS, the city, and the state willing to spend the money to make school reopening safe?
These questions are of particular concern in Chicago, where 84% of students and 50% of staff are Black, Latinx, multi-racial, or Native American. 1 The consequences of racist health care, discriminatory housing, and employment practices are that these students, educators, and their families are at greater risk of contracting and becoming seriously ill from COVID-19.
Also, a large percentage of staff are at increased risk of serious illness or death from COVID-19 due to their age and/or underlying health conditions. Half of CTU’s membership live in the Chicago zip codes with the highest rates of COVID-19, totaling well over 35,000 positive cases.
