Chicago Teachers Union’s questionable finances include hiring union boss’ mom

By William O'Keefe

04/26/2024

Since 2018, the Chicago Teachers Union has paid Robin Potter’s law firms nearly $320,000 – with thousands of that for unspecified purposes. She’s the mother of CTU’s vice president.

TAGS: CTU: Chicago Teachers Union

Chicago Teachers Union wants taxpayers to hand $2K to each asylum-seeking student

By Jerry Barmore

04/25/2024

When the Chicago Teachers Union negotiates its new contract this summer, one of the demands will be to give each asylum-seeking student $2,000. Why that’s CTU’s business and not for elected representatives to decide is anyone’s guess.

TAGS: CTU: Chicago Teachers Union

Chicago Teachers Union lauds failing community school, wants 180 more

By Hannah Schmid

04/22/2024

The Chicago Teachers Union hosted a press conference to begin contract negotiations at one of the sustainable community schools it wants to replicate 180 times. The Ellen H. Richards Career Academy has zero students proficient in reading or math.

TAGS: CTU: Chicago Teachers Union

Chicago Teachers Union demands 10X boost in mediocre school model

By Hannah Schmid

04/19/2024

Chicago Public Schools’ 20 ‘sustainable community schools’ perform worse on average than other Chicago public schools in reading and math, absenteeism, graduation rates and more. The Chicago Teachers Union is demanding 180 more of the failing schools.

TAGS: CTU: Chicago Teachers Union

Chicago Teachers Union sets a radical example for nation’s teachers unions

By William O'Keefe

04/19/2024

The Chicago Teachers Union prides itself as a leader in “bargaining for the common good” – unionspeak for contract demands related to its political agenda rather than teachers’ wages and benefits. This year’s negotiations could reverberate across the nation.

TAGS: CTU: Chicago Teachers Union

Chicago Teachers Union contract demands about politics, bosses’ power

By Mailee Smith, Hannah Schmid

04/11/2024

A 142-page leaked document contains hundreds of Chicago Teachers Union contract demands, from 100% abortion coverage to pay for surrogates, from housing students in old schools to a fleet of electric school buses. Then there are 180 more of the union’s favored, failing schools.

TAGS: CTU: Chicago Teachers Union

What you should know about the Chicago Teachers Union

By Brad Weisenstein

04/04/2024

The Chicago Teachers Union put its lobbyist in the Chicago mayor's office and is now negotiating its next contract with him. What taxpayers should know about CTU, how it's impacted education, its leadership and its ambitions to be the political machine running the nation's third-largest city.

TAGS: CPS: Chicago Public Schools, CTU: Chicago Teachers Union, education

Vallas: Funding should aid students, not boost Chicago Teachers Union job count

By Paul Vallas

03/28/2024

Chicago Public Schools is changing its funding formula. It should be about student welfare and achievement. It’s really about keeping Chicago Teachers Union jobs intact even as enrollment drops.

TAGS: CPS: Chicago Public Schools, CTU: Chicago Teachers Union

Chicago Teachers Union demands excluding parents from student pronoun, sexuality info

By Dylan Sharkey

03/22/2024

The Chicago Teachers Union leaders want student information regarding student pronouns and sexual orientation to be kept confidential from parents if that’s what the student wants.

TAGS: CTU: Chicago Teachers Union

Editorial: Voters send loud message to Mayor Johnson, his Chicago Teachers Union allies

By Hilary Gowins

03/19/2024

In 2020, 70% of Chicago voters approved the failed statewide progressive income tax. But on March 19, they rejected Mayor Brandon Johnson’s real estate transfer tax hike. This is a resounding defeat for Johnson and his allies in the Chicago Teachers Union.

TAGS: Chicago, CTU: Chicago Teachers Union, taxes

CTU: Chicago Teachers Union

Chicago Teachers Union’s questionable finances include hiring union boss’ mom

Chicago Teachers Union wants taxpayers to hand $2K to each asylum-seeking student

Chicago Teachers Union lauds failing community school, wants 180 more

Chicago Teachers Union demands 10X boost in mediocre school model

Chicago Teachers Union sets a radical example for nation’s teachers unions

Chicago Teachers Union contract demands about politics, bosses’ power

What you should know about the Chicago Teachers Union

Vallas: Funding should aid students, not boost Chicago Teachers Union job count

Chicago Teachers Union demands excluding parents from student pronoun, sexuality info

Editorial: Voters send loud message to Mayor Johnson, his Chicago Teachers Union allies

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