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Chicago Teachers Union Wants to Launch Voter Campaign to Oust Mayor, Stop School Closings
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis is going after elected officials who want to close schools. At a press conference on Monday, April 15 she said the union is planning to launch a citywide voter registration campaign to oust Mayor Rahm Emanuel and other elected officials who were part of the decisions involving the closing [...]
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Fuzzy Math: The CPS Budget Crisis
As citywide opposition to Mayor Emanuel’s massive school closing program comes into sharper focus every day, the rationale for the plan gets fuzzier and fuzzier. Take the question of money. When CPS chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett accepted her utilization commission’s call for taking high school closings off the table, the potential savings from school closings was [...]
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CTU Suspends Strike, Students Back in School
Chicago teachers returned to the classrooms on Wednesday Sept. 18 after spending seven days on the picket line. For the first time in 25 years, Chicago public school teachers were on strike leaving some 350,000 children outside of the classrooms for over a week. Teachers’ union president, Karen Lewis, made the announcement on Tuesday after [...]
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On Strike: Chicago Teachers Head to Picket Lines After CTU, CPS Contract Talks Fail
For the first time in 25 years, Chicago public school teachers are on strike. After heavy negotiations between delegates of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and Chicago Public School (CPS) officials, CTU president Karen Lewis announced last night no agreement had been reached. “Negotiations have been intense but productive. But we’ve failed to come to [...]
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Chicago Teachers Union Sets Strike Date for Sept. 10
Chicago Teachers Union members will walk out to strike on Sept. 10 unless an agreement can be reached with CPS, announced union president Karen Lewis on Thursday, Aug. 30. The announcement comes one day after Lewis filed the required 10-day strike notice – an authorization issued to her by CTU delegates on Aug. 22. “This [...]
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CPS, CTU Reach Agreement for Longer School Day, 477 Displaced Teachers to be Hired
As the start of the 2013 school year approaches, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and Chicago Teachers Union’s (CTU) battle over longer school days and teacher salary agreements seems to be getting clearer, for now. The long contract battle between CTU and CPS has created much tension about a possible teacher strike and delaying the start [...]
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CPS CEO Jean-Claude Brizard Says Strike Vote was Rushed
CPS CEO Jean-Claude Brizard said he’s disappointed at the Chicago Teachers Union leadership for rushing their members to vote for a strike before giving them the opportunity to consider the independent fact finder’s compromise report due in July. “The CTU leadership left the teachers with a choice between a strike and nothing — that’s a [...]
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Chicago Public Schools to Extend High School Days by 36 Minutes
Chicago Public School officials announced on Thursday, Dec. 22 the school day in Chicago Public High Schools will extend by 36 minutes at the start of the 2012-2013 school year. Under the extended school day guidelines, high school students would receive an additional 46 minutes of direct instruction, eliminating the current 14-minute homeroom, and providing [...]
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Tilden Slated for Turnaround: How Many Transitions Can a School Handle?
Tilden Career Academy, located in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, has been among the 10 schools flagged to become a “turnaround” school next year. Without having a clear understanding of what will happen to the school, the students and parents worry that new changes are only going to perpetuate the existing high teacher turnover rate [...]
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Longer School Days for Charter Schools
CPS Grant Program to Support Charter Schools Launching a Longer School Day Raises Concern Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the expansion of a longer school day to charter school students across the city through a Chicago Public Schools grant program on Thursday Oct. 27. Approximately 42 charter schools will be eligible for $75,000 in grant funding [...]
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