By CTU Communications | June 16, 2022 | News
File under: contact tracing, COVID Vaccination, COVID-19
CPS has confirmed that staff and members may conduct paid voluntary phone banking this summer to help families sign up their students for COVID testing and vaccinations, per our hard-fought MOU.
By CTU Communications | June 1, 2022 | News, Press Release
File under: budget cuts, COVID-19, Gun Violence, Lori Lightfoot
Families, communities struggling with daily tragedy from violence cry out for more support while facing chronic disinvestment and bracing for mayor’s $60+ million in staffing and program cuts across half of CPS schools. 5:30 p.m. (gather), 6:00 p.m. (start), Thursday,...By Chris Geovanis | May 28, 2022 | News, Press Release
File under: Budget, COVID-19, Lori Lightfoot, student-based budgeting
Lightfoot’s CPS team slashes over $3 million from Little Village school budgets as district sits on $1.4 billion in federal COVID relief dollars, low-balls scope of harm from cuts to critical programs. 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 31: Protest, press conference with...By Chris Geovanis | May 23, 2022 | News, Press Release
File under: budget cuts, COVID-19, Hibbard Elementary, Lori Lightfoot
With the Albany Park community still reeling from two years of trauma and loss from the devastating pandemic, CPS is imposing $430,000 in budget cuts at HIbbard Elementary, a beloved school in the predominantly Latinx community. But the school community is fighting back.
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 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 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...
