CTU rallies for contract ahead of final meeting of appointed school board

CTU rallies for contract ahead of final meeting of appointed school board – WGNTV (Chicago)

“It is a Springfield issue, and so sorry to tell the Senate president, and sorry to tell the Speaker of the House, that they are going to have to think about Chicago during this legislative session,” CTU president Stacy Davis Gates said. "They’re going to have to think a lot about Chicago, because our school district, like every school district in the state of Illinois, deserves priority because we teach young people.”

CTU rallies for contract ahead of final meeting of appointed school board

CHICAGO — Dozens of members of the Chicago Teachers Union rallied ahead of Thursday evening's meeting of the Chicago Board of Education that will include discussion on the teachers' contract and address the closure of charter schools and the future of CPS CEO Pedro Martinez. The meeting at the district's Colman Office, at 4655 S. Dearborn St., is the last for the current Board of Education before the new partially elected board is seated in Janu…

CTU rallies before Board of Education meeting: Live updates

The Board of Education overseeing Chicago Public Schools is scheduled to meet Thursday evening for their monthly meeting. An hour before the meeting begins, the Chicago Teachers Union will demonstrate outside the district’s administrative offices in Bronzeville demanding their four-year contract be settled before the Trump administration is sworn in. They are tying their contract demands to fears of changes on the federal level due to Project 20…