By CTU Communications | November 17, 2020 | News, Press Release
File under: COVID, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, Lori Lightfoot
Mayor Lori Lightfoot won’t lay out public health criteria for proposed return in January as daily COVID-19 infection average tops 2,300 — nearly six times higher than the district’s remote learning cut-off of 400 per day in July.
By CTU Communications | November 15, 2020 | News, Press Release
File under: Clerks, COVID, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, Lori Lightfoot, school clerks, technology coordinators
“Save Our Clerks” campaign to assist workers with basic needs is yet another example of educators and labor coming together to fill in gaps where others have fallen short.
By CTU Communications | November 4, 2020 | News, Press Release
File under: Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Teachers Union, COVID, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, CTU, Jesse Sharkey, reopening, ventilation
Mayor and CPS finally relent to releasing ventilation data, but fail to test HVAC systems properly or allow independent verification as parents and educators call for more transparency and involvement in safety discussions. CHICAGO, Nov. 4, 2020—Despite announcing an...
By CTU Communications | November 2, 2020 | News, Press Release
File under: Clerks, COVID, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, Lori Lightfoot, school clerks, technology coordinators
Mayor Lightfoot and Chicago Public Schools continue to force clerks, clerk assistants and technology coordinators to choose between their lives and their livelihoods.
By CTU Communications | October 28, 2020 | News, Press Release
File under: Black, Clerks, COVID, COVID tracker, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, Latinx, Lori Lightfoot, school clerks, technology coordinators
With COVID-19 surging and CPS refusing to answer parents’ questions, Union launches tracker to help identify schools with positive cases. CHICAGO, Oct. 28, 2020—The Chicago Teachers Union today is launching its citywide, school COVID-19 tracker to aid members in...
By Stacy Davis Gates, CTU Vice President | October 21, 2020 | News
File under: Clerks, coronavirus, COVID, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, Lori Lightfoot, Remote Learning, school clerks, technology coordinators
CPS and the mayor have provided no detailed plan on how they intend to resume in-person instruction for the second quarter. CPS also has refused to commit to bargaining with our union over its decision on when and how to resume in-person instruction.
By CTU Communications | October 18, 2020 | News
File under: COVID, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, Lori Lightfoot, Remote Learning, Safety
As parents, students and educators await Chicago Public Schools’ plans for the second quarter of the school year, the Chicago Teachers Union today launched the first in a series of digital advertisements focusing on the needs of the city’s school communities in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By CTU Communications | October 7, 2020 | News
File under: Clerks, COVID, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, Lori Lightfoot, Remote, Remote Learning, school clerks, technology coordinators
The district is straight up lying to our people in hopes of intimidating them out of exercising their rights. This is the same divide and conquer tactic it tried when forcing members back into buildings in late August.
By CTU Communications | October 5, 2020 | News, Press Release
File under: Arbitration, COVID, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, Lori Lightfoot, Remote Learning, Safety
“Challenging an arbitrator’s binding ruling does not get us where we need to be,” said CTU VP Stacy Davis Gates. “We have a long way to go and the clock is ticking.”
By CTU Communications | September 30, 2020 | News, Press Release
File under: Canty, COVID, COVID-19, Jesse Sharkey, Lori Lightfoot, Mt. Greenwood
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...
