By Jesse Sharkey, CTU President | May 21, 2022 | News
File under: CTU Election, Election
Election results mark the fifth term in office for the Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators, which was first elected to Union leadership in 2010 with Karen Lewis as president, followed by re-elections in 2013 and 2019, and an uncontested election in 2016.
By CTU Communications | May 18, 2022 | News
File under: CTU Election
We look forward to hearing the voices of our 25,000+ CTU members as you vote for the leadership of our union.
By CTU Communications | May 18, 2022 | News, Press Release
File under: budget cuts, COVID-19, Haines elementary, Lori Lightfoot
With schools currently funded at only 65% ‘adequacy’, mayor’s $60+ million budget cuts come as CPS sits on $1.4 billion in federal COVID relief dollars and low-balls scope of harm, which will force split classrooms, larger classes, less resources for students who...By Chris Geovanis | May 17, 2022 | News
File under: budget cuts, COVID-19, Haines elementary, Lori Lightfoot, SBB: Student Based Budgeting
With schools currently funded at only 65% ‘adequacy’, mayor’s $60+ million budget cuts come as CPS sits on $1.4 billion in federal COVID relief dollars and low-balls scope of harm, which will force split classrooms, larger classes, less resources for students who...By CTU Communications | May 16, 2022 | News, Press Release
File under: charter operators, COVID-19, CTU-ACTS
Unionized charter school teachers and support staff at over 30 schools with 13 different operators launch unified contract campaign to reduce desperate staff shortages, strengthen affordable health care for workers, stabilize schools. 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 17: Rally,...By CTU Communications | May 16, 2022 | News, Press Release
File under: Buffalo NY, Comer College Prep, Seandell Holliday, violence
CHICAGO, May 16, 2022 — The Chicago Teachers Union issued this statement today following another violent weekend in Chicago that led to the tragic death of a CPS student and a 6 p.m. weekend curfew for unaccompanied young people in Millennium Park: Why does a Black...By Chris Geovanis | May 13, 2022 | News
File under: ACTS, Charter, COVID-19
Rank-and-file members of the CTU-ACTS charter division are rallying next Tuesday, May 17, to win the staffing, raises and resources that their schools need! This follows last Friday’s kickoff of their unified contract campaign — or what one member called “the...By Jesse Sharkey, CTU President | May 13, 2022 | News
File under: budget cuts, COVID-19
Mayor Lightfoot wants to cut tens of millions of dollars from our schools, while at the same time, is sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars in unspent federal recovery funds. On Friday, May 13, we sent the mayor and her Chicago Public Schools team a clear...By Tara Stamps | May 12, 2022 | News
File under: Illinois State Board of Education, mentor, Tara Stamps, We Care
Teaching is hard, especially in the first few years. New teachers need guidance and support — not many can make it through on their own. It takes a village to raise a good teacher and the We Care early educator mentoring program is that village.
By Jen Johnson, CTU Chief of Staff | May 11, 2022 | News
File under: COVID-19
A message to rank and file members from CTU Chief of Staff Jen Johnson with safety links and toolkits as COVID surges again in Chicago: These last two years have been exhausting, but as good as it’s felt to see some glimpses of “normal” return to our lives, COVID-19...
