Mayor’s layoffs of educators hit schools struggling with inequity, ongoing pandemic harms
Lightfoot saddles district with $175 million pension bill instead of funding critical positions — librarians, social workers, technology coordinators — in every school. CHICAGO, June 10, 2022 — The Chicago Teachers Union released this statement following word that...Mayor Lightfoot has record resources for schools and city, but continues to fall short in equitably investing in critical needs
The 443 educator layoffs in Chicago Public Schools underscore ongoing failure of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s handpicked Board of Education to provide every school community with adequate funding for basic needs.
Laid off teachers to mayor: students need more support, not less
Some of city’s hardest-hit South, West Side neighborhoods taking staff cuts, despite $1.8 billion in federal supports to prevent layoffs, stabilize school communities, support students. 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 23: press conference with laid off educators, CTU...School layoffs in a pandemic are unnecessary, dangerous and cruel
Lightfoot’s CPS team to lay off over 400 educators in some of city’s hardest-hit South, West Side neighborhoods, despite $1.8 billion in federal supports to prevent layoffs, support students. CHICAGO, June 21, 2021 — Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse...
Arbitration win closes seniority loophole
Grievance process prevents principals from using vendor “certifications” to carve out positions and lay off veteran teachers.
CTU argues in landmark civil rights case that CPS practiced systemic racism in layoffs
Union argues that 2011 layoffs targeted Black educators in segregated schools even as district policies continue to decimate ranks of Black teachers and support staff. CHICAGO, September 16, 2020—For almost ten years, the CTU has been battling CPS in federal court on...Take Action: Stop Cuts at CICS!
In a moment when the world is declaring that Black Lives Matter, we should not be cutting Black educators. CICS CEO Elizabeth Shaw has said that we all have to be committed to challenging systemic racism. And yet she and her organization are defunding a school that serves primarily Black students.
