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CTU raises COVID-19 fears, requests teachers stay home
Despite being directed by the school district, many teachers will not be returning to work this week amid safety concerns due to COVID-19.
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CTU flexes political muscle, continues push for delay in reopening schools
Chicago Public Schools may not open buildings in the first weeks of 2021 as projected, following safety concerns raised by the Chicago Teachers Union.
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OPINION: How Chicago Stiffed The Rest Of Illinois For Cost Of Its New Teacher Pension Giveaways
Illinoisans outside Chicago may be laughing at the city’s reckless new contract with its teachers, but the real joke is on them.
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Teachers union president, Sharkey, wants city homeowners to pay more in property taxes while he gets a big break on his
Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) President Jesse Sharkey gets a discount on his property taxes, but wants other city homeowners to dig even deeper to satisfy the demands of the city's 24,000 teachers and their broke pension system.
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Wirepoints: Why no discussion of CTU pension debt in strike negotiations?
As the Chicago Teachers Union and the city finalize an agreement – maybe – to end this month's strike, an online news outlet wants to know why teacher pension debt hasn't come up during negotiations.
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Analysis: Chicago Public Schools' students drop out at 10x rate of peer districts
Of the 27,733 freshmen who entered a Chicago Public Schools high school in 2015, 2,740, or about ten percent, dropped out before graduating, according to an analysis of district filings by Chicago City Wire.
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Wirepoints: CTU strike creates 'a negative spiral' that hurts teachers, police and fire departments
No matter how things shake out with the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) strike, Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski does not see how taxpayers can come out on the winning side.
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Chicago Teachers Union threatens third strike in seven years
With the threat of a third Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) strike in the last seven years hanging in the balance, Illinois taxpayers could soon be forced to pay at least $1.1 billion in order to hammer out a deal.
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Chicago Teachers Union official Chambers has little to say about Venezuela trip controversy
Few special education teachers have ever passed through days like Sarah Chambers experienced this week.
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At least one member of CTU delegation to Venezuela unphased by report of government’s torturing
One member of a Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) delegation that visited socialist Venezuela in June “to learn from the Bolivarian Revolution” had no reaction to this week’s New York Times front page story of the government there resorting to torture and murder to quash opposition.
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Chicago Teachers Union president Sharkey in hot water as some of his “useful idiots” visit and embrace impoverished, socialist Venezuela
A recent pilgrimage to socialist Venezuela by a contingent of Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) extremists has some of the rank-and-file union members who stayed behind calling for the ouster of CTU President Jesse Sharkey, himself a card-carrying socialist.
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Wirepoints: Denied pension bailout, Lightfoot makes generous offer to Chicago Teachers Union
On the heels of asking the state for a taxpayer-funded bailout, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is offering the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) a five-year contract and a 14-percent pay raise, according to a Wirepoints report.
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Wirepoints founder Glennon calls reelection of CTU's officer caucus 'beyond heartbreaking'
The founder of an online news outlet considers it a tragedy that the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) reelected an officer caucus, including its socialist president, reportedly by an overwhelming margin.
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Northwest Side GOP leader undeterred by city election results
Northwest Side GOP Club member Matt Podgorski proudly insists that his group's policy positions will remain unchanged by the results of this month's municipal election in Chicago.
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Substitute teacher who opted out of Chicago Teachers Union saw no benefit in membership
According to a substitute teacher for the Chicago Public Schools, opting out of the teachers' union was no big deal.
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CTU-backed tax proposals are 'fringe lunacy,' says Wirepoints founder
A trio of taxes pushed by a coalition of activists and unions is nothing short of insanity, said the founder of an online news outlet during a recent interview.
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CTU following Los Angeles teachers' lead on demands, charter schools
Their contract is up at the end of June but Chicago teachers through their union, CTU, have already presented Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the school district with a list of demands.
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Wirepoints president calls CTU's proposal 'irresponsible'
Chicago Teachers Union's first contract proposal, delivered earlier this week to the city's mayor, asking—among other things—for a 5 percent pay raise, is "irresponsible," the president of an online news outlet said during a recent interview.
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Wirepoints founder Glennon disputes teacher union's Sharkey on city's financial state
Mark Glennon, founder of the website Wirepoints, disagrees with Jesse Sharkey, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, about the city facing a financial crisis.
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Sanctuary provision included in new Acero teacher contract
A provision in a tentative contract reached between the Acero charter school network and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) will prohibit the school from collecting and distributing information about the immigration status of students, teachers and families, and restricts access by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to schools except by court order, a CTU lawyer told the Associated Press. The contract, which ended a four-day strike, also includes raises for teachers and staff annually over the next four years and a shorter school year and school day.