Chicago Teachers Union attacks successful schools to push failing schools
Chicago Teachers Union attacks successful schools to push failing schools
The Chicago Teachers Union is demanding sustainable community schools be increased from 20 to 200. It is also pushing Chicago Public Schools to end selective enrollment schools. CTU’s choice is failing. Selective enrollment is working. Did CTU bosses flunk logic class?
By Hannah Schmid
Chicago Teachers Union demands $51K raise for average teacher
Chicago Teachers Union demands $51K raise for average teacher
Chicago Teachers Union contract demands would bring the average teacher’s salary to nearly $145K after cost-of-living adjustments and annual step increases. That’s $51K more atop the $43K union leaders have delivered since 2012.
By Bryce Hill
Chicago Teachers Union wants revenue meant for homeless if mayor’s tax hike passes
Chicago Teachers Union wants revenue meant for homeless if mayor’s tax hike passes
The Chicago Teachers Union has poured at least $400,000 into Mayor Brandon Johnson’s tax hike proposal. If it passes, the union wants to use the taxes generated to fund housing for its own members.
By Mailee Smith
How many Chicagoans are homeless?
How many Chicagoans are homeless?
‘Bring Chicago Home’ advocates claim there are 68,000 homeless Chicagoans, but that’s 10 times higher than the estimate recognized by the federal government. If the problem is exaggerated, what will Mayor Brandon Johnson do with his tax hike money?
By Dylan Sharkey
Johnson’s ‘Bring Chicago Home’ tax hike could fund Chicago Teachers Union’s contract demands
Johnson’s ‘Bring Chicago Home’ tax hike could fund Chicago Teachers Union’s contract demands
The Chicago Teachers Union is pushing Mayor Brandon Johnson’s real estate tax hike with cash and by taking students out of school to vote. The heavy push is understandable when CTU mentions the tax hike as a revenue source for their contract demands.
By Dylan Sharkey
Chicago teachers nearly triple private-sector salary growth
Chicago teachers nearly triple private-sector salary growth
Today’s average CPS teacher has seen a salary increase of 86% since the 2011-2012 school year. That’s over 2.5 times faster than inflation or the private sector.
By Bryce Hill
Illinois Policy Institute Ethics Complaint: Chicago Teachers Union Pushing Students to Vote for Johnson Tax Hike
Illinois Policy Institute Ethics Complaint: Chicago Teachers Union Pushing Students to Vote for Johnson Tax Hike
The following is an ethics complaint from the Illinois Policy Institute filed March 11 with the Chicago Public Schools ethics office and inspector general.
By Mailee Smith
Chicago Teachers Union taking students out of class to vote for Johnson’s real estate tax hike
Chicago Teachers Union taking students out of class to vote for Johnson’s real estate tax hike
The event, which is taking place on March 15, likely violates school district rules that make clear students can’t attend a political event during school hours. Staff activity in such an event also likely violates the CPS Code of Ethics.
By Hilary Gowins
Chicago Teachers Union wants housing assistance for teachers making nearly $100K
Chicago Teachers Union wants housing assistance for teachers making nearly $100K
New contract demands from the Chicago Teachers Union include housing assistance for teachers. Chicago’s median teacher salary is more than $93,000.
By Dylan Sharkey
Editorial: CTU president wants us to stop asking questions about how Chicago will pay for her list of demands
Editorial: CTU president wants us to stop asking questions about how Chicago will pay for her list of demands
Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates on March 5 told a packed house at the City Club of Chicago this: Stop asking questions about how to pay for her list of demands, even if it costs “$50 billion … and three cents.”
By Hilary Gowins
Read all the Chicago Teachers Union’s contract demands
Read all the Chicago Teachers Union’s contract demands
The Chicago Teachers Union's lengthy list of demands includes base raises and experience compensation each year, housing help, climate justice, more compensation added to pension calculations and a pool of health care funds targeted to racial disparities.
Vallas: CTU’s community schools less about students, more about union power
Vallas: CTU’s community schools less about students, more about union power
Boosting “sustainable community schools” and killing selective enrollment and other public-school choices is the Chicago Teachers Union’s answer to fix city schools. But the push is about union power rather than raising student achievement.
By Paul Vallas
Chicago Teachers Union wants Johnson to hike pay, fund housing for members
Chicago Teachers Union wants Johnson to hike pay, fund housing for members
The Chicago Teachers Union this summer will negotiate their new contract with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, their former lobbyist. Their demands include housing assistance for union members, choking charter schools and more money.
By Dylan Sharkey