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Our contract and our unity protect our members and the students we serve in every school. Learn how to stand up for your rights, get help from CTU staff when you need it, and stand with fellow CTU members.
My Movement
Along with parents, students and community, we advocate for the schools – and the city – that our students deserve. Learning, working and living conditions are not separate. Together, our Union wages a comprehensive fight for the soul of public education.
My Union
Caring, democratic, united: CTU is more than 25,000 teachers, paraprofessionals and clinicians acting as one.
Against Sorting: How the charter movement squashes the dreams of students with real and perceived disabilities
Brilliance comes in many forms, but our current system defunds educational access for special education students students of color, deflating their dreams to our collective detriment.
read moreLightfoot using GOP tactics to fire teachers, environmental activists
At a time of attacks on educators from red states and Republican lawmakers for teaching the truth about our country’s history, it’s disgraceful that educators are targeted by the mayor for protecting their students and their school communities.
read moreA year of firsts as LSC elections mark 16th year
CPS just finished the 16th LSC election cycle in the 32 years since the creation of the Local School Councils — and it was a year of firsts. But the news isn’t all good, as some schools experience difficulty attracting candidates to serve.
read moreYour Union is Here to Help
Administrative Transfer Window
Teachers will be able to transfer schools for Fall 2022 without principal permission from Monday, April 4, 2022 to Wednesday, May 18, 2022.
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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.
