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

What you need to know about ‘Bring Chicago Home’

By Dylan Sharkey

03/07/2024

Chicago’s March 19 primary election includes Mayor Brandon Johnson’s real estate transfer tax hike to raise $100 million, dubbed “Bring Chicago Home.” Will higher taxes without a plan help homeless Chicagoans or hurt their job prospects?

TAGS: Brandon Johnson, real estate transfer tax

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

Read all the Chicago Teachers Union’s contract demands

03/05/2024

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

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.

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

Chicago Teachers Union endorses plan making their property a “mansion”

By Dylan Sharkey

02/29/2024

The Chicago Teachers Union is pushing a plan to tax “mansions.” But the tax would mainly hit commercial buildings, such as the building where the union is housed.

TAGS: CTU: Chicago Teachers Union

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.

Lawmakers consider renewing Invest in Kids scholarships

By Dylan Sharkey

02/19/2024

A new bill would revive a scholarship program that was stripped from 9,600 low-income Illinois students, ending their best chances to attend schools of their choice.

TAGS: ILGA: Illinois General Assembly, Invest in Kids, school choice

Chicago Teachers Union

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

What you need to know about ‘Bring Chicago Home’

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

Read all the Chicago Teachers Union’s contract demands

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

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

Chicago Teachers Union endorses plan making their property a “mansion”

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

Lawmakers consider renewing Invest in Kids scholarships

FAQ: How the federal scholarship program would help Illinois students

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