Chicago Teachers Union

This is what solidarity looks like! From powerful speeches to unwavering energy, our rally showcased the strength of educators and allies united for justice. 💪🏽

We’re building a brighter future for our students, schools, and communities.

On Veterans Day, CTU honors every member and every school family who has served. You stood up for this country, and today you stand with our students and with each other. We're proud to call you union family.

We know Tom Dart means well. But taking a bus that hauled Black people to jail, sending it to 60 schools without libraries and calling it "literacy" loses the plot. Something is wrong when a jail offers student services like a library before their own neighborhood schools do.

We've rallied lawmakers, walked picket lines and gone on hunger strikes so students could have healthcare, mental health services, libraries and restorative justice. Lawmakers ignored our school communities, yet they still found money for the criminal justice system. Our students deserve these resources in the first place, not as a second chance program run by corrections.

Fund our schools, not cages.

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A school closed to students, but open for voting.

On Election Day, we visited the former EPIC Academy in South Chicago, a unionized charter school that closed in June despite educators and community members fighting to keep it open.

The building may have closed as a school, but the community's need for fully funded neighborhood schools hasn't gone anywhere.

As Chicago enters a new chapter with its first fully elected school board, the question remains: "Will we invest in our neighborhood schools or continue to close them?"

Our communities deserve schools that stay open for students, not just Election Day.

“It didn't pay off." The @Suntimes @WBEZ found outside groups spent $12 million trying to beat the educators and parents we endorsed for school board, and in district after district their most expensive bets lost.

That’s what real people power looks like.

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