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Participate in our democracy. Read More My Rights In every school and workplace, unity in action protects our members and the students we serve. Learn how to stand up for your rights, unite with fellow CTU members, and get help from CTU staff when you need it. Read More My Movement Along with parents, students and community we advocate for the schools – and the city – that our students deserve. Learning, working and living conditions are not separate. Together, our Union wages a comprehensive fight. Read More News As Black History Month begins, Union, parent and community allies launch challenge to racist CPS funding scheme By CTU Communications | February 7, 2020 | News , Press Release Research documents how current district funding formula strangles predominantly Black schools on the South and West sides of the city. read more Mayor’s TIF plan deploys the right rhetoric, yet continues past practices that deny equity By CTU Communications | February 5, 2020 | News , Press Release If Lightfoot is serious about TIF reform, she should sunset downtown TIF districts early, which would return $400 million annually for schools, parks, libraries, the city budget and other projects. Update on retroactive and veteran pay By CTU Communications | January 31, 2020 | News CPS will pay retroactive pay back to July 1, 2019, on Feb. 28, 2020. This will include 3 percent general raises and increases for eligible PSRP members, as well as hourly rates for non-instructional, instructional, substitute and coaching positions. SBB and SQRP are racist, unjust tools for our students and schools By CTU Communications | January 30, 2020 | News In order to be fully prepared for the district’s budget meetings, our members and allies need to be fully informed on the effect student based-budgeting and the SQRP ratings system have on our students. My Union Caring, united, democratic: CTU is more than 25,000 teachers, paraprofessionals and clinicians acting as one. Learn about fellow members. Ensure that union staff can keep you in the loop. Participate in our democracy. Read More My Rights In every school and workplace, unity in action protects our members and the students we serve. Learn how to stand up for your rights, unite with fellow CTU members, and get help from CTU staff when you need it. Read More My Movement Along with parents, students and community we advocate for the schools – and the city – that our students deserve. Learning, working and living conditions are not separate. Together, our Union wages a comprehensive fight. Read More Your Union is Here to Help Caring, united, democratic: CTU is more than 25,000 teachers, paraprofessionals and clinicians acting as one. Find My Union Rep View My Contract Handle a Grievance CTU Speaks! Podcast Our new podcast, CTU Speaks! is hosted by rank-and-file CTU members Andrea Parker and Jim Staros. We’ll chat about our union, enforcing our new contract, and our fight for the schools our children and educators deserve. Listen Now! Topics Report: The Schools Chicago’s Students Deserve 2.0 This 2018 update to CTU’s 2012 report, The Schools Chicago’s Students Deserve provides a counter-narrative to the corporate agenda on education. SCSD 2.0 highlights the many racist inequities that have continued, or in some cases worsened, since 2012. CTU has a track record of fighting for reforms to change these realities, which is why Chicagoans continue to trust the CTU more than the Board of Education, more than Mayor Emanuel and more than any reformer” backed by billionaires and corporate foundations. Read More Chicago Teachers Union affiliations include the Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL), the Illinois State Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (ISFL-CIO), the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT), and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Chicago Teachers Union 1901 W. Carroll Ave. Chicago, IL 60612 Phone: 312-329-9100 Fax: 312-329-6200 About News Press Room Contact Privacy Policy Facebook Twitter © 2020 Chicago Teachers Union. All Rights Reserved. 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