Chicago Teachers Union demands $51K raise for average teacher

By Bryce Hill

03/15/2024

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.

TAGS: CTU: Chicago Teachers Union

Chicago Teachers Union wants revenue meant for homeless if mayor’s tax hike passes

By Mailee Smith

03/15/2024

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.

TAGS: Brandon Johnson, CTU: Chicago Teachers Union

Johnson’s ‘Bring Chicago Home’ tax hike could fund Chicago Teachers Union’s contract demands

By Dylan Sharkey

03/13/2024

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.

TAGS: CTU: Chicago Teachers Union, real estate transfer tax

Voter information on Chicago’s real estate transfer tax hike

03/11/2024

March 19 primary ballots ask Chicago voters whether they support Mayor Brandon Johnson's real estate transfer tax hike. While he and 'Bring Chicago Home' advocates claim money will help homeless Chicagoans, there is reason to worry about hurting 5,143 commercial properties with no guarantee how this 'mansion tax' will be used.

TAGS: Chicago, CTU: Chicago Teachers Union, taxes

Illinois Policy Institute Ethics Complaint: Chicago Teachers Union Pushing Students to Vote for Johnson Tax Hike

By Mailee Smith

03/11/2024

The following is an ethics complaint from the Illinois Policy Institute filed March 11 with the Chicago Public Schools ethics office and inspector general.

TAGS: CTU: Chicago Teachers Union

Chicago Teachers Union taking students out of class to vote for Johnson’s real estate tax hike

By Hilary Gowins

03/11/2024

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.

TAGS: CTU: Chicago Teachers Union

Chicago Teachers Union wants housing assistance for teachers making nearly $100K

By Dylan Sharkey

03/07/2024

New contract demands from the Chicago Teachers Union include housing assistance for teachers. Chicago’s median teacher salary is more than $93,000.

TAGS: Brandon Johnson, CTU: Chicago Teachers Union

Editorial: CTU president wants us to stop asking questions about how Chicago will pay for her list of demands

By Hilary Gowins

03/06/2024

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.”

TAGS: CTU: Chicago Teachers Union, Stacy Davis Gates

Chicago Teachers Union wants Johnson to hike pay, fund housing for members

By Dylan Sharkey

03/05/2024

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.

TAGS: Brandon Johnson, CTU: Chicago Teachers Union

Vallas: Chicago Teachers Union’s flawed dogma kicked police out of schools

By Paul Vallas

02/29/2024

The reach of the Chicago Teachers Union combined with their anti-police ideology is putting Chicago’s youth at risk. Chicago Public Schools need school resource officers, but this fall they become police-free zones.

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

CTU: Chicago Teachers Union

Chicago Teachers Union demands $51K raise for average teacher

Chicago Teachers Union wants revenue meant for homeless if mayor’s tax hike passes

Johnson’s ‘Bring Chicago Home’ tax hike could fund Chicago Teachers Union’s contract demands

Voter information on Chicago’s real estate transfer tax hike

Illinois Policy Institute Ethics Complaint: Chicago Teachers Union Pushing Students to Vote for Johnson Tax Hike

Chicago Teachers Union taking students out of class to vote for Johnson’s real estate tax hike

Chicago Teachers Union wants housing assistance for teachers making nearly $100K

Editorial: CTU president wants us to stop asking questions about how Chicago will pay for her list of demands

Chicago Teachers Union wants Johnson to hike pay, fund housing for members

Vallas: Chicago Teachers Union’s flawed dogma kicked police out of schools

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