By Richard Berg | September 10, 2021 | ACTS, News
File under: ChiArts: Chicago High School for the Arts, COVID-19, CTPF: Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund, CTU-ACTS, Youth Connections Leadership Academy
Almost 90 percent of unionized charter schools have negotiated safety agreements with CTU that include testing, screening and increased staffing. CTU-ACTS has established a health insurance committee seeking to provide an improved and less expensive benefits package. And, after threats to close, Youth Connections Leadership Academy will remain open for another year.
By Richard Berg | June 4, 2021 | ACTS, News
File under: Aspira, ChiArts: Chicago High School for the Arts, CTPF: Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund, EPIC Academy charter school, Urban Prep, Youth Connections Leadership Academy
Members at Urban Prep voted unanimously to strike unless management comes to the table with a more reasonable offer. CTU pressure pushed ASPIRA to retract non-renewal notices for Union members. Epic Academy terminated four of the most active CTU members on the bargaining team, prompting members to prepare to strike. Youth Connections Leadership Academy has reversed course on closing the school. CTU pushed the General Assembly to close a loophole that allowed ChiArts and other contract schools to skip contributions to the Chicago Teachers Pension Fund.
By CTU Communications | April 23, 2021 | News, Press Release
File under: ChiArts: Chicago High School for the Arts, COVID-19
CPS contract school refuses to set standards for ventilation, contact tracing, COVID testing, as COVID cases rise among students nationally. CHICAGO—School administrators at CPS contract school The Chicago High School for the Arts (ChiArts) waited until the last...
By Richard Berg, Organizer | October 30, 2020 | ACTS
File under: Acero, ChiArts: Chicago High School for the Arts, CICS: Chicago International Charter Schools, EPIC Academy charter school, IHSCA, Passages, YCLA
CTU leaders from Acero are fighting layoffs. The CTU New Organizing Committee and the Union’s Charter Division are both taking big steps. Meanwhile, Epic Academy and Namaste Charter School have each made important new agreements with the Union.
By Chris Geovanis | May 6, 2019 | ACTS, News, News Advisory
File under: Charter, Charter Schools, ChiArts: Chicago High School for the Arts, Chicago Teachers Union, Class Size, Contract, CTU, IHSCA, IJLA, Instituto del Progreso Latino, Latino Youth High School, Strike
Latino Youth strikers win sanctuary protections, mental health support, restorative justice, culturally appropriate curricula for low-income, Latinx high school students, as strike at Instituto schools continues.
By Chris Geovanis | May 2, 2019 | ACTS, Movement, News, News Advisory
File under: Charter, Charter Schools, ChiArts: Chicago High School for the Arts, Chicago High School for the Arts, Contract, CTU, CTU-ACTS, IHSCA, IJLA, Instituto, Instituto del Progreso Latino, Instituto Health Sciences Career Academy, Instituto Justice Leadership Academy, Latino Youth High School, LYHS, Strike, YCCS, YCLA
7AM TODAY, May 3: Press conference/picket lines IHSCA, 2520 S. Western Ave., Chicago. (Picket lines at all three striking schools: IHSCA, IJLA, LYHS) 1PM TODAY, May 3: Rally and March IHSCA, 2520 S. Western Ave. Strikers will march to Instituto CEO’s office at...
By CTU Communications | March 20, 2019 | ACTS, News, Press Release
File under: Charter, ChiArts: Chicago High School for the Arts, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Contract, CSO, James Mabie, Jim Mabie, Pensions, Strike
Wealthy CSO board treasurer James Mabie co-founded ChiArts high school—and both outfits refuse to fund workers’ pensions. CHICAGO—Finance executives have salivated for decades at the prospect of getting their hands on workers’ retirement nest eggs and the...
By Chris Geovanis | March 11, 2019 | ACTS, News, Press Release
File under: ChiArts: Chicago High School for the Arts, Contract, Jesse Sharkey, Strike
Any attack on the right to a retirement with dignity is wrong – whether it’s at a school like ChiArts, which is training the next generation of artists or a world class institution like the CSO, where our students aspire to perform one day, says CTU. CHICAGO, March...
By CTU Communications | March 10, 2019 | ACTS, News, Press Release
File under: Charter, Charter Schools, Charters, ChiArts: Chicago High School for the Arts
Press conference: 4:30PM Monday, March 11 ChiArts High School, 2714 W. Augusta Blvd., Chicago Teachers to rally to demand fair contract as CTU members mull strike at ChiArts, what would be first strike of a publicly funded contract school in U.S. history....
By Chicago Alliance of Charter Teachers and Staff | March 1, 2018 | ACTS, News
File under: AFT: American Federation of Teachers, Bruce Rauner, Charter, ChiACTS, ChiArts: Chicago High School for the Arts, Chris Baehrend, CTU-ACTS, Dan Montgomery, Donald Trump, IFT, Jesse Sharkey, Randi Weingarten
CHICAGO—Today, academic teachers and paraprofessionals from The Chicago High School for the Arts (ChiArts) voted to join the Chicago Alliance of Charter Teachers and Staff, the charter school local that has recently merged with the Chicago Teachers Union. Educators...
