By Kurt Hilgendorf | December 23, 2020 | Features, Movement
File under: ERSB: Elected Representative School Board, HB 2267
Chicago’s Grassroots Education Movement alliance and CTU are mounting a campaign to pass HB 2267 — for an elected, representative school board — when lawmakers return to the Capitol after for a “lame duck” session, the closing days of the current general assembly before new legislators are seated. But the success of that campaign will depend on members contacting their state senators and insisting the bill get consideration first thing in the new year.
By Christel Williams-Hayes, Recording Secretary | November 17, 2020 | Chicago Union Teacher, Departments, News
File under: Arbitration, Chicago Board of Education, Christel Williams Hayes, Clerks, COVID-19, Lori Lightfoot, school clerks, technology coordinators
An independent arbitrator found that school buildings are unsafe and ordered that clerks and other staff should be allowed to work remotely at least four days a week. But the mayor decided she’s above the law and refused to abide by that ruling.
By Nora Flanagan, Northside College Prep | March 19, 2020 | Chicago Union Teacher, Features, News
File under: coronavirus, COVID-19, Nora Flanagan, Northside College Prep, Voices of the Rank-and-File
It wasn’t my best moment. I wasn’t especially proud, as the one in my family who has always been the rock in times of crisis, that I was sitting on the edge of my bed crying, and I couldn’t really even articulate why.
By Erik Young, King College Prep | February 19, 2020 | Chicago Union Teacher, Features, News
File under: Black History Month, Erik Young, King College Prep
I’m scorned, adorned, and often forewarned / That the way I perform, is because I am a unicorn / A Black Man in a teacher’s uniform. Far from the norm. / A rarity in a sea of disparity, trying to seek clarity / But at times, my work is viewed as charity.
By Maria Moreno, CTU Financial Secretary | February 17, 2019 | Chicago Union Teacher, Departments, News
File under: CTU Election, Officers
NOTICE OF 2019 NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF UNION OFFICERS (See Page 2 for CHARTER DIVISION OFFICERS AND CHARTER NETWORK COUNCIL OFFICERS) AND OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATE DELEGATES TO THE 2020 AND 2022 AFT CONVENTIONS AND 2019 IFT CONVENTION On Friday, May 17, 2019,...