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

Vallas: CTU’s community schools less about students, more about union power

By Paul Vallas

03/05/2024

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.

Report: Illinois tax-credit scholarship students see largest year-over-year learning gains

By Hannah Schmid

03/05/2024

The Illinois State Board of Education released a late, flawed report on the Invest in Kids scholarship program. Despite comparing apples to oranges, the report shows the Invest in Kids program worked for low-income kids.

TAGS: Invest in Kids

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

Chicago Teachers Union pushing school model where kids perform poorly

By Hannah Schmid

02/26/2024

Chicago Teachers Union leadership will use this summer’s contract negotiations with Chicago Public Schools to push for expansion of “sustainable community schools” in the district. The model doesn’t work: students perform worse, absenteeism rises.

Paul Vallas: Illinois’ real ‘State of the State’

By Paul Vallas

02/23/2024

Illinois is on an upward path, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said during his State of the State speech. True, by some measures. Not so much by too many measures that matter.

Vallas: Want democracy in Chicago Public Schools? Elect all 21 board members

By Paul Vallas

02/12/2024

The Chicago Teachers Union for decades pushed to elect the school board, but with their former employee in the mayor’s office they rather he choose most of the board for a little while longer.

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

Chicago’s chronic school absences hit Hispanic students hard

By Hannah Schmid

02/06/2024

Absenteeism rates among Hispanic students in Chicago Public Schools are chronically high. Proficiency in reading and math is low.

TAGS: CPS: Chicago Public Schools

Vallas: Money-hungry CTU forces a fiscal, student achievement crisis

By Paul Vallas

01/29/2024

The Chicago Teachers Union’s answer is always “more money.” But the question is why Chicago’s students are doing so poorly when there’s more money than ever to teach fewer of them.

TAGS: Brandon Johnson, CTU: Chicago Teachers Union

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

Vallas: CTU’s community schools less about students, more about union power

Report: Illinois tax-credit scholarship students see largest year-over-year learning gains

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

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

Chicago Teachers Union pushing school model where kids perform poorly

Paul Vallas: Illinois’ real ‘State of the State’

Vallas: Want democracy in Chicago Public Schools? Elect all 21 board members

Chicago’s chronic school absences hit Hispanic students hard

Vallas: Money-hungry CTU forces a fiscal, student achievement crisis

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