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My Rights
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.
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Caring, democratic, united: CTU is more than 25,000 teachers, paraprofessionals and clinicians acting as one.
CTU rank and file ratify HS agreement — first in nation to negotiate vaccines for students, families
Voting on the High School Addendum to the Safety MOA
Help is available here for the vote on the high school addendum to the Memorandum of Agreement on Resumption of In-Person Instruction.Congratulations new retiree delegates
719 ballots were cast. The top 17 vote getters won a delegate position. The votes received for each candidate are listed from highest to lowest here.House of Delegates sends tentative agreement to rank-and-file for vote
This evening, the House of Delegates voted overwhelmingly to end our remote-only work action, approve the tentative framework that our rank-and-file HS steering committee unanimously approved last night, and conduct an all-member vote on this TA as soon as is practical.
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Administrative Transfer Window
Teachers will be able to transfer schools for Fall 2021 without principal permission between Thursday, April 9 to Monday, May 24, 2021.
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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.
