CTU car caravan for safety, equity, trust seeks to push mayor to bargain enforceable safety standards
Elected officials, grassroots neighborhood groups to join teachers, school clerks, clinicians, parents, students in struggle to reopen safely — and improve remote learning as pandemic surges. 11:00 a.m. Car Caravan for Safety, Equity and Trust: Union Park, Ashland and...
$205M in fed support to CPS must address gaping holes in equity
Digital divide thwarts remote learning for thousands of students while needs for health care, trauma supports go unaddressed. CHICAGO, April 2, 2020—CPS is expected to receive $205 million from the federal government to address costs and needs associated with the...Falling school enrollment driven by push-out of working class Black and Latinx families
City Hall has power to reverse hostility to needs of ordinary residents—and must muster political will to support real equity and economic justice. CHICAGO, November 8, 2019—Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey issued the following statement today in...
CTU to CPS board, mayor: transformation must begin by bargaining in earnest
With union contract expiring in four days, equity for public schools remains a pipe dream, as CPS seeks to jam through racist revised school assessment policy and preserve status quo. CHICAGO—Parents, students, teachers and school support staff rallied today and...
Additional CPS funding falls far short of meeting classroom, contract needs
With Chicago Public Schools still around $2 billion from adequacy, deficiencies in this budget point to the district’s failure to recognize the real needs of its students.
