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CPS indifference to real equity undercuts student enrollment, presents challenges for November return

CPS indifference to real equity undercuts student enrollment, presents challenges for November return

By CTU Communications | October 16, 2020 | News, Press Release
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Pre-K drop driven by a number of factors, including a confusing registration process, district refusal to collaborate with educators and parents and mayor’s failure to provide devices for Pre-K students. CHICAGO, Oct. 16, 2020—Chicago Teachers Union Vice...
AFT president: We need Fair Tax, safe learning during COVID, new leadership in DC

AFT president: We need Fair Tax, safe learning during COVID, new leadership in DC

By CTU Communications | October 13, 2020 | News, Press Release
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CTU support for Fair Tax part of broad effort to bring equitable funding, policies to public education sphere as pandemic rages locally—and Mayor’s hand-picked board of ed refuses to follow binding arbitration decision on remote working during COVID spike. 10:00...
To grow educators of color, CPS must eradicate the policies that threaten them

To grow educators of color, CPS must eradicate the policies that threaten them

By CTU Communications | October 13, 2020 | News, Press Release
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Increasing diversity is just one step. CPS needs to care for, respect and nurture the Black and Brown teachers we already have. CHICAGO, Oct. 13, 2020—Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Stacy Davis Gates issued the following statement today regarding Chicago Public...
Mayor’s plan to resume November in-school learning is dangerous

Mayor, CPS try to strongarm clerks into false choice between safety and livelihood

By CTU Communications | October 7, 2020 | News, Press Release
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Lightfoot’s handpicked district leaders ignore arbitrator’s legally binding ruling and threaten jobs of workers who exercise right to work safely by working remotely. CHICAGO, Oct. 7, 2020—CPS has threatened to discipline workers who exercise their right...
CPS indifference to real equity undercuts student enrollment, presents challenges for November return

CTU wins legal battle to protect workers in unsafe buildings as two new schools report COVID cases — and one tragic death

By CTU Communications | October 2, 2020 | News, Press Release
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The arbitrator’s ruling finds that the district’s half-measures are failing, in addition to its failures to share case reports with the public and the Chicago Teachers Union. CPS is not fit to reopen.

Mayor mulls reopening schools as CPS broadband plan flounders and two schools report COVID cases

By CTU Communications | September 30, 2020 | News, Press Release
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Mayor mulls reopening schools as CPS broadband plan flounders and two schools report COVID cases Some Black and Latinx neighborhoods are near 20 percent positivity rates, as these communities remain most at risk for infection and death. CHICAGO, September 30, 2020—CTU...