Editorial: Chicago Teachers Union wants to use other states to shame Springfield into finding billions more for schools. That ignores reality
Can you imagine Illinois with a $17 billion budget surplus? Neither can we. But it does happen — elsewhere. One Midwestern ...
Entire Chicago school board to resign over teachers union dispute with Dem mayor: 'Deeply alarming'
The entire Chicago Board of Education is resigning after reportedly declining to fire the Chicago Public Schools CEO during ...
Chicago Alders Say Mayor Johnson Acting Like Dictator After "Coup" On Public School Board
CBS's Chris Tye reports that 41 out of 50 members of the Chicago City Council do not like how Mayor Brandon Johnson -- who ...
New York Sun6d
Chicago Teachers Union, in First-Ever Election, Is Seeking ‘Total Control’ of City’s School Board
A battle is unfolding over who will control public schools in one of America’s most highly-populated cities, as early voting ...
The Chicago School Board Coup
The entire board resigns in protest as the mayor tries to placate the Chicago Teachers Union with an unaffordable new ...
Illinois Policy2d
Chicago Teachers Union continues to underfund member representation
Not even 20% of CTU’s spending went to representing its members during its 2023-2024 fiscal year, according to its own ...
Opinion
Chicago Democrats leave students behind in their political games
The Chicago Public Schools system is a disaster, and it isn’t being helped by the fact that the city’s Democratic officials keep using it as a political tool.
Chicago Teachers Union holds "walk-ins" at 150 schools to demand more funding for CPS
The demonstrations came as approximately $200 billion federal COVID relief funding is coming to an end nationwide.
Illinois Policy13d
Report: Chicago Teachers Union is new Chicago political machine
Years of exorbitant political spending in Illinois – more than $24.3 million since 2010 – has secured an enormous amount of ...
Opinion
Editorial: Lessons from Detroit for Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union
With the Chicago Teachers Union making unrealistic contract demands, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson taking its side and Gov. JB Pritzker eyeing a potential political train wreck, you might have thought ...