By CTU Communications | May 7, 2021 | _News
File under: COVID-19, Jesse Sharkey, Teacher Appreciation Week
Dear Sisters and Brothers: Last March, COVID-19 threw the world and our profession into a tailspin. When the pandemic forced schools to shut down abruptly, you adapted your lessons for remote learning and found new ways to engage your students online with little...By CTU Communications | April 8, 2021 | _News, _Press Release
File under: CPS: Chicago Public Schools, Jesse Sharkey, Lori Lightfoot, racial discrimination, Turnarounds
The mayor’s handpicked school board refuses to address or remedy persistent discriminatory policies that target Black and Brown schools and educators for layoffs, closures and termination. CHICAGO, April 8, 2021—A federal judge has set a date of June 8 for a...By CTU Communications | April 2, 2021 | _News, _Press Release
File under: Bill Cunningham, HB 2275, JB Pritzker, Jesse Sharkey, Melissa Conyears-Ervin, Section 4.5, Silvana Tabares
Repeal of despised 1995 Amendatory Act gutting bargaining rights for CPS unions at last eliminates restrictions on CTU’s ability to advocate for students and families. CHICAGO, April 2, 2020—Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey issued the following...By CTU Communications | March 30, 2021 | _News, _Press Release, ACTS
File under: Charter Schools, COVID-19, Jesse Sharkey, Lori Lightfoot
As health officials raise alarm about rising COVID rates, CPS students in charter schools could be denied access to critical safety and mitigation tool unless District reverses course. CHICAGO — Surveillance testing is an essential tool to monitor the current state of...By CTU Communications | March 16, 2021 | _News, _Press Release
File under: COVID-19, Jesse Sharkey, Lori Lightfoot
CPS email to parents distorts status of negotiations, undercuts input from students, parents, educators. CHICAGO, March 16, 2020—Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey issued the following statement to rank and file CTU members tonight in response to this...By CTU Communications | March 10, 2021 | _News, _Press Release
File under: American Recovery Plan, COVID-19, Jesse Sharkey, Lori Lightfoot
Federal relief must confront massive inequity and trauma intensified by pandemic, focus efforts on hard-hit Black and Brown school communities, and support immigrant, homeless and special education students. CHICAGO, March 10, 2021—Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s handpicked...By CTU Communications | February 5, 2021 | _Press Release
File under: COVID-19, Jesse Sharkey, Lori Lightfoot, Stacy Davis Gates
Lightfoot plan would only pause in-person learning district-wide only if there are COVID-19 outbreaks in 50 percent of CPS schools at the same time, while district health metric would continue in-person learning unless citywide positivity rate reaches 25 percent. ...By CTU Communications | January 12, 2021 | _News, _Press Release
File under: COVID-19, Jesse Sharkey, Lori Lightfoot, Sadlowski Elementary, Sandoval Elementary, Uplift Community High School
No equity for Black and Brown students whose teachers have been locked out of remote teaching, as COVID surfaces in clusters at schools that include McClutchen, Hanson Park, Beard Specialty, serving pre-K and acute medical needs special education students. NOW:...By CTU Communications | January 12, 2021 | _News, _Press Release
File under: COVID-19, Jesse Sharkey, Lori Lightfoot
Quarantines, positive cases, sickness surface at schools that include McClutchen, Hanson Park, Beard Specialty, serving pre-K and acute medical needs special education students. 6:30 a.m. TODAY: Press conference with locked out educators, via Zoom. Reporters, register...By CTU Communications | December 17, 2020 | _News, _Press Release
File under: Bargaining Update, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Teachers Union, COVID, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, CTU, IELRB, Jesse Sharkey, Section 4.5
CHICAGO, Dec. 17, 2020—Today the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board (IELRB), on a split 2-1 vote, denied the Union’s request to seek a preliminary injunction against CPS’ unilaterally developed plan to resume in-person learning on Jan. 4. The two-member...
