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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.
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 ...
History teacher, labor leader. 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. [1]
A contingent of Chicago Teachers Union members took a paid day off today, traveling from Chicago to Springfield to ask for the entire $1 billion, saying the state has underfunded CPS for years.
Chicago schools will expand COVID-19 testing and have standards to switch schools to remote learning under a hard-fought tentative deal approved by teachers' union leaders. Students were poised to ...
The Chicago Teachers Union is requesting that the district allow for remote learning until the current surge in COVID-19 cases subsides or until the union and city officials can agree on terms for ...
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 ...
Chicago has scrapped classes for days in a confusing standoff with the teachers' union over COVID-19 safety measures in the nation's third-largest school district. From remote instruction to ...