Oct11
Summary and Complete Tentative Agreement
Read a one-page summary of the new tentative agreement and other documents containing its full text.
Oct11
UPDATED: Text of the Tentative Agreement
The text of the tentative agreement reached before midnight on October 10.
Oct11
Tentative Agreement Reached
As the midnight hour approached, the Chicago Teachers Union and the Board of Education achieved a tentative agreement.
Oct10
Chants for picket lines
Keep spirits up and get the message out with these chants for your picket line Tuesday.
Oct09
Salaries, support show divide between CPS, other Illinois school districts
Chicago Tribune reporter Diane Rado finds major differences between average Chicago Public Schools salaries and what educators earn in suburban school districts.
- Sep29 CTU issues Board of Ed 10-day notice of intent to strike Strike would be the third work stoppage by Chicago public school educators since Mayor Rahm Emanuel took office in 2011
- Sep26 Teachers vote 95 percent to authorize strike to resolve contract dispute CTU House of Delegates to meet Wednesday to discuss possible strike date
- Sep22 Strike authorization vote in second-day; teachers decry 20 percent reduction in school counselors, nurses and psychologists when violence is at an all-time high
- Aug22 New CTU report reveals rampant and unaccountable outsourcing is impoverishing and undermining Chicago’s public schools “Outsourced: How CPS Sells its Own Governance to the Highest Bidder,” comes as CPS claims to have insufficient funds for providing students much-needed classroom services, but continues to dole out millions to for-profit corporations.
- Aug09 CTU President Karen Lewis warns of inevitable strike should CPS enforce cuts to wages and benefits of public school educators 'We have been bargaining in good faith since the middle of last year and we have yet to come to an agreement. At some point a line has to be drawn in the sand.'
- Jul20 CTU joins teachers’ unions across U.S. in unanimous passage of resolution at American Federation of Teachers national convention to broaden scope of Every Student Succeeds Act
