By CTU Communications | December 9, 2019 | _News, _Press Release
File under: Chicago Virtual Charter School, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, Frazier Preparatory Academy Charter School, School Closings
The proposed closure of Chicago Virtual and Frazier Preparatory Academy charter schools is an admission of failure by the district, and a continued attack on the lives of the city’s Black and Brown children.
By CTU Communications | November 27, 2019 | _Press Release
File under: Facilities, School Closings
So this is how a school—one with more than 40 years of history that includes a state champion girls basketball team, multiple city champion debate teams, a featured role in the video for a single on a Grammy-nominated album and myriad positive impacts on thousands of students and families’ lives—officially ends?
By CTU Communications | March 21, 2019 | _News
File under: Chicago, Collective Bargaining, Election, funding, Lori Lightfoot, mayor, Mayor 2019, police, Rahm Emanuel, School Closings, Toni Preckwinkle
Mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot has no record of leadership in public education, yet has presented a number troubling issues for Chicago teachers, clinicians, paraprofessionals and education support staff.
By Jesse Sharkey, CTU President | March 20, 2019 | _News
File under: Chicago, Collective Bargaining, Election, funding, Lori Lightfoot, mayor, Mayor 2019, police, Rahm Emanuel, School Closings, Toni Preckwinkle
When it comes to public education, Toni Preckwinkle is the best choice for mayor.
By CTU Communications | March 19, 2019 | _News, _Press Release
File under: Rahm Emanuel, School Closings
Emanuel’s token funding for schools cannot erase injustice of multi-billion dollar handouts to wealthy developers, academy project jammed through over community opposition, as Black male youth are pushed out of CPS—or die—before they can graduate. CHICAGO, March... 
By CTU Communications | March 1, 2019 | _News, _Press Release
File under: Arne Duncan, Charter, Charter Expansion, Chicago Board of Education, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, School Closings
Chicagoans have demanded an elected representative school board as a progressive alternative to the insider deals, chronic neglect and racist, classist policies of Rahm, Duncan and Daley. CHICAGO, March 1, 2019—Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey issued...By CTU Communications | December 11, 2018 | _Press Release, ACTS
File under: Charter Schools, School Closings, Urban Prep
Closure of campus serving African-American young men is the latest transgression in the wholesale removal of Blacks from the city of Chicago.
By CTU Communications | December 3, 2018 | _News, _Press Release
File under: Chicago Board of Education, Facilities, Gentrification, Racism, School Closings
CHICAGO, December 3, 2018—Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey issued the following statement today in response to a judge’s injunction against CPS’ closure of National Teachers Academy—and CPS’ subsequent announcement that it would no...By jesse sharkey - ctu vice president | March 2, 2018 | _News
File under: Chicago Board of Education, Hirsch, Illinois House, Jesse Sharkey, Robeson, School Closings
Despite tireless efforts from the CTU and school communities across Chicago, the mayor’s handpicked Board of Education voted on Wednesday to close three schools and consolidate others. While we will continue to oppose the Board’s deplorable decision,...By Chicago Teachers Union | February 28, 2018 | _News, _Press Release
File under: Chicago Board of Education, Illinois House, Illinois Senate, Jesse Sharkey, John Cullerton, Rahm Emanuel, School Closings
Proxies for mayor add insult to injury by voting to close Black schools on last day of Black History Month, in another round of attacks on educational rights. CHICAGO, Feb. 28, 2018—The Chicago Teachers Union issued the following statement today in response to the... 
