Potential CTU strike about boosting power of nation’s teachers’ unions
Potential CTU strike about boosting power of nation’s teachers’ unions The Chicago Teachers Union prided itself as the vanguard for a rash of nationwide teacher strikes following its 2012 walkout. It’s using the same playbook in 2021.
Researchers with the Centers for Disease Control announced on Jan. 26, “there has been little evidence that schools have contributed meaningfully to increased community transmission.” Seven of the 10 largest school districts have responded by resuming classroom instruction at some point during the school year, with an eighth poised to follow.
Yet some of the most vociferous teachers’ unions are still pushing to remain remote, with the Chicago Teachers Union in the lead.
Four things to know about Chicago teachers striking over COVID-19
Four things to know about Chicago teachers striking over COVID-19 Most of CPS’s 340,000 students haven’t been in a classroom for 10 months, and a brewing CTU strike could keep them out even longer.
The bill has yet to be signed, but already the Chicago Teachers Union appears to be ready to use expanded powers to strike.
Lawmakers were warned that lame duck session, in the middle of a pandemic, when Chicago Public Schools students hadn’t been in a classroom for 10 months, was not the time to rush through legislation. But still they passed House Bill 2275, repealing restrictions that at least partially hindered the union’s ability to walk out by limiting the subjects that could lead them to call a strike.
Elmhurst District 205 superintendent leaving for New York job David Moyer
Updated 1/15/2021 2:28 PM
Elmhurst Unit District 205 Superintendent David Moyer will step down at the end of the school year to take a position leading a New York school system.
The district announced Moyer s departure on Friday, just days after returning to some in-person learning amid pushback from the teachers union.
Moyer will take the helm of a district of similar size in LaGrangeville, New York, near Poughkeepsie. The school board there selected Moyer from a pool of more than 40 applicants. He will leave District 205 at the end of June. I want to feel like I m making an impact, and I have an impact to make yet, and I wanted to go somewhere where I felt that I could do that, Moyer said Friday. And I think this is a good fit, and it s in a region in the country where my wife and I would like to live.
Illinois State University’s Board of Trustees approved a $46,000 bonus for its outgoing president on Saturday, an installment signed off by all board members but criticized by disgruntled graduate workers.
Chicago teachers refusing to return to school face discipline, up to firing
Chicago teachers refusing to return to school face discipline, up to firing The Chicago Teachers Union is encouraging Chicago Public School teachers to “take action” against the school district, but the union’s agenda risks teachers’ jobs without backing by science or law.
Chicago Public Schools students haven’t been in a classroom for 10 months. Pre-kindergarten and some special education students are slated to return Jan. 11, with elementary students returning Feb. 1.
But conflicts between the district and the union representing teachers are further jeopardizing their educations.
Approximately 5,000 CPS teachers were set to return to their buildings Jan. 4 to prepare for the Jan. 11 return of pre-kindergarten and special education students. But half stayed home amid claims by the Chicago Teachers Union that schools weren’t safe.