By Nara Schoenberg - Chicago Tribune | April 20, 2018 | _News
File under: Chicago Tribune, LGBTQIA+
It was a simple question: “Mr. E., do you have a girlfriend?” But Elijah Eiler, a teacher at the James Otis World Language Academy in Chicago, wanted to tread carefully as a gay teacher. It was the beginning of the school year, and Eiler didn’t know the seventh-grader...By gina caneva - lindblom math and science academy | April 6, 2018 | _News
File under: AFSCME: American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, Chicago Tribune, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, Gina Caneva, Janus, Rahm Emanuel, Richard M. Daley, Supreme Court
When I first started teaching in Chicago, I was skeptical about being a member of the Chicago Teachers Union. I was a hotshot rookie teacher who looked at the “step-and-lane” system of pay as archaic. When I saw then-Harlem Children’s Zone CEO Geoffrey Canada tell...By ctu communications | March 12, 2018 | _News
File under: Chicago Tribune, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, Crime, Englewood, Laquan McDonald, National Teachers Academy, Racism, Rahm Emanuel, TIF
Honoring our students’ voices and rights CPS students around the city held walk-outs and other actions at a number of schools on Wednesday to mark the one-month anniversary of the horrific mass shooting that took the lives of 17 high school students and teachers...
