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Teachers' union makes lengthy list of demands for new school year
AWAKE Illinois members fail to see the logic in a list of demands made by the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) that would set the stage for nearly 4,200 new hires before Chicago public schools reopen their doors this fall.
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Chicago Teachers Union reposts column linking CRT fight to white supremacy
The Chicago Teachers Union is bringing attention to an opinion column in The Washington Post about the push against critical race theory.
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Chicago Teachers Union continues to fight CPS on in-person class resumption
Periods seem to be difficult to write on an agreement between Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union. For months during the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been commas, ellipsis, and strikethroughs.
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Robling: Children are entitled to schools that open
A Chicago-based consultancy firm founder says Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) teachers need to get back to work.
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Chicago teachers refuse to return for in-person learning
Chicago Public School (CPS) students in elementary schools across the city are supposed to return to school on Feb. 1, but teachers that are part of the Chicago Teachers’ Union (CTU) are refusing to return for in-person learning.
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Chicago teachers refuse to return for in-person learning
Chicago teachers are refusing to return to classrooms after the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) said its members had voted to go against the reopening of in-person school.
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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.