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Karen Lewis (née Jennings; [2][3] July 20, 1953 – February 7, 2021) [4][5][6] was an American educator and labor leader who served as president of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), Chicago's division of the American Federation of Teachers, from 2010 to 2014. For nearly 20 years before becoming president of the teachers union, she was a high ...
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is a labor union that represents teachers, paraprofessionals, and clinicians in the Chicago public school system.The union has consistently fought for improved pay, benefits, and job security for its members, and it has resisted efforts to vary teacher pay based on performance evaluations.
Education. Saint Mary's College (BA) Notre Dame University. Concordia University Chicago. Stacy Davis Gates (born December 25, 1976) is an American labor leader and educator. She is president of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). In May 2022, she was elected president of the union after previously serving as vice president under Jesse Sharkey.
The Urban Center Action and Illinois Network of Charter Schools’ have amassed $3.6 million in donations combined ahead of Chicago’s first ever school board election in November.
Website. aft.org. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is the second largest teacher's labor union in America (the largest being the National Education Association). The union was founded in Chicago. John Dewey and Margaret Haley were founders. [2][3][4][5]
General meeting, National Education Association on July 3, 1916, at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest labor union in the United States. [2] It represents public school teachers and other support personnel, faculty and staffers at colleges and universities, retired educators, and ...
The Chicago Teachers Federation was an organization of women elementary school teachers founded in 1897. In its first few years, it ran a successful campaign to increase teacher pay, and its membership grew to 2,500. [1] In 1900, the CTF elected Catherine Goggin and Margaret Haley as its officers, deciding to pay them the same wages as those ...
Teachers and Reform: Chicago Public Education, 1929–1970 is a 2008 book by John F. Lyons, published by University of Illinois Press, which traces the development of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) during that time period. The author argues that, in the words of Maurice Berube of Old Dominion University, that improving society in general and ...