CPS and Gov. Rauner: The Challenges Continues to Grow Who knew a 23-year-old rap artist from the South Side community of Chatham would shine attention on the budgetary problems that plague our public-school system in Chicago? After receiving a congratulatory tweet from Gov. Bruce Rauner for winning three Grammy awards, Chancellor Bennett, aka Chance the […]
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) issued the following statement in response to the Senate confirmation of billionaire public education novice Betsy DeVos as U.S. Secretary of Education: “Choosing Betsy DeVos to lead the Department of Education was one of the first in what will surely be a series of horrific decisions made by the Trump […]
Year in Review 2016: A Critical Year for Chicago State, CTU Defender Contributing Writer, Erick Johnson Chicago State University is limping its way through the school year as the predominantly Black school faces a year-end deficit that may force officials to slash expenses to keep the school afloat. The latest development in CSU’s financial woes […]
Working well into the late hour, the Chicago Teachers Union and the Board of Education achieved a tentative agreement. The tentative agreement will be made available on the CTU website as soon as the wording is available electronically. A tentative agreement is not a final contract. Every active member of the Chicago Teachers Union will […]
Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union have yet to reach a negotiation as of Monday morning. If an agreement is not reached by end-of-day, CTU plans to keep its Tuesday strike date. The union’s teachers have been working without a contract since the end of June 2015 — the contract signed after the […]
The Chicago Public Schools season is in high gear going into its third week, and the tension between the teachers and CPS may be just as high. Chicago teachers are entering the second year without a contract with CPS. As CPS CEO Forrest Claypool repeatedly says, there are no additional funds to meet the contractual […]
The following account is written by a Chicago resident and retired Chicago Public School teacher regarding an incident involving her encounter with on-duty Chicago Police…
Today, while at the James R. Thompson Center, members of the Chicago Teachers Union challenged Governor Rauner to a ‘read-off.’ The challenge comes amid the…
Pullman Porter to Postal Worker What Happens If Rauner Busts The Unions? By Robert T. Starks Defender Contributing Writer The state budget stalemate continues because…
