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Our brother Yoni Vallecillo, a Honduran immigrant and teacher at Jones College Prep, is now a newly sworn-in U.S. citizen. He has just voted in his first presidential election. Such a powerful and absolutely wonderful moment. Don’t ever take this right for granted. Vote.
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A Halloween classic from Miss Cooper’s class at CICS Wrightwood on the South Side. Word is there’s a Thriller 2.0 coming. Stay tuned. 🎃🧙🏾💃🏾
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CPS and the mayor told us to open windows for additional ventilation...
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@RexChapman
We did our thing in Chicago, too. Ms. Jazmine Cooper — about 7-8 months pregnant at the time — and her students at Wrightwood Elementary on Chicago’s South Side. Halloween 2019. Epic.
Don’t sleep on the little queen in the pink. 💃🏾
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Oh word?
Both Preckwinkle and Lightfoot vow no Chicago Teachers Union strike on their watch if elected mayor.
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Good morning! This is 102-year-old CTU retiree Bea Lumpkin casting her vote-by-mail ballot. If Bea can do it, anyone can do it. Vote!
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Dear President-elect Biden:
Rahm Emanuel closed 50 schools and covered up the murder of a 17-year-old Black child until after he won re-election.
Sincerely,
Chicago
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The results of tonight's citywide electronic ballot are in. Starting tomorrow, all CTU members at CPS schools should be working remotely. The result of tonight's vote was 73 percent in favor of the remote-work-only job action.
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Teachers are truly terrified. This is not the right decision.
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Adam Toledo was loved. He was one of ours, and we are keeping his memory and his Gary ES family in our hearts, along with his mother, family and the people of Little Village. We wish them healing and comfort right now.
Love your children. Love your communities. Love yourselves.
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Mayor Lightfoot has started locking Chicago public school teachers and staff out of their Google Classrooms.
#LoriLockout
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BREAKING: We have reached an agreement with the mayor and CPS to make up five days of student instruction. Students and educators will return to classes tomorrow.
#CTUSEIUstrike
#whenwefightwewin
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Good morning. We wish it was a better one, but President Biden sent $2 billion to CPS for COVID recovery and stability, and Mayor Lightfoot and the district turned around and laid off more than 400 educators and staff. Let that sink in.
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BREAKING: Our CTU sister Sophia (in red) was arrested at today’s
#LiftTheBan
action fighting evictions and protecting families from continued suffering from housing crisis. There is no homework without a home. We need rent control and must keep students housed in this pandemic.
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“To find out that they’re building a scenario village when there are thousands of people, homeless, with nowhere to go...it’s sickening.”
The controversial West Side police academy will have mock neighborhood for training — raising the total cost of the project to $128 million. Here's what it will look like: .
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Cancelling the CPD contract and defunding the police, which either the City or Chicago Board of Ed has the authority to do, would free $33 million to be reinvested in at least 300 counselors, restorative justice coordinators and social workers for every school in the district.
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Thanks to the advocacy of our members and school communities, Mayor Lightfoot and CPS have agreed to continue bargaining and will not lock any educators out of their teaching platforms.
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Handcuffs on a child is a complete failure of the system. In every way.
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We are being inundated with calls and emails this morning from educators who attempted to log into their platforms to connect with their students and teach remotely, and safely, but are being locked out by Mayor Lightfoot.
#LoriLockout
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Just a reminder that we need to cancel student debt and standardized tests. Enjoy the rest of your day.
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We have a tentative agreement, but we do not have a return to work agreement. So we will be at City Hall at 10 a.m. to demand the mayor return our days.
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Chicago is the best city on the planet.
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We can be next, Chicago.
#PoliceFreeSchools
BREAKING:
Portland is removing police from the schools!!!
Bring this movement to your school district next!
#BlackLivesMatterAtSchool
#CounselorsNotCops
!
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"Hey, let's give Rahm a job in the Biden administration."
America:
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And just like that...
We find out the truth about
#PaulVallas
.
Today, Vallas received an almost $60,000 contribution from Trump's former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos's Super PAC.
Don't believe the hype, a "lifelong Democrat" would never take $$$ from DeVos.
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Chicago is not Vernon Hills.
Chicago is also not Libertyville.
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CTU NEWS: Mayor Lori Lightfoot is firing two activists and George Washington HS teachers for their participation in protests against General Iron’s proposed move to Southeast Side. Her handpicked Board of Ed votes tomorrow. It's a move straight out of the Ron DeSantis playbook.
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Scenes from the streets today as Chicagoans fight to join Minneapolis, Portland, Denver, Seattle, Milwaukee and Oakland in removing police from public schools.
#EdEquityOrElse
#PoliceFreeSchools
#CopsOutCPS
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The same Lightfoot administration that refused to accept masks and COVID-19 tests from the State of Illinois is the same administration that used federal relief funding meant for the City to repay Chase Bank debt in 2021, which was against U.S. Treasury Dept. regulations.
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This isn’t easy. It hurts all of us...parents, students and educators. But all the issues we are stuck on are about improving the quality of education in Chicago Public Schools. It shouldn’t be this hard, but this city finds money for everything except a child’s education.
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Please stop giving former Chicago police Supt. Garry McCarthy any attention. He was complicit in the cover-up of the murder of a child. He's garbage.
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None of it matters compared to the loss of human life. None of it.
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Ninety-four percent of CTU members vote to authorize a strike to win the schools Chicago's students deserve.
#putitinwriting
#faircontractnow
#twill
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You never gave children a village. You gave them redlining, housing covenants and gentrification.
With all children like Adam Toledo who might be struggling, it’s up to all of us to mentor them, to guide and nurture them.
When we don’t, the streets will.
Every child is looking for their village, their community.
We decide what they will find.
We failed, and the streets won.
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These are two FedEx Drop Boxes on the Southwest Side, sites where CPS families are expected to leave completed COVID testing kits. Because boxes are overflowing, families are scrambling to find safe and secure places to leave their kits. The deadline for return is today.
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With recent news that CPS has, for weeks, not accepted the State's offer of SHIELD tests, vax clinics and PPE, Mayor Lightfoot must partner with Chicago's educators for safety. L.A. and other districts are reopening with expansive COVID mitigation. Our students deserve the same.
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CPS denied accommodation to a 27-year veteran teacher whose mother has Stage 4 cancer.
"I've given you my all, and this is what you give me at the time I need you the most?"
These are not nice people we're dealing with. Great marketing, great liars, but not nice people at all.
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With his signature of HB2275 into law today, Governor J.B. Pritzker has now restored Chicago public school educators’ right to bargain freely for real equity in our public schools, and advance organizing for the common good.
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This support from
@BernieSanders
means a great deal to our members, our
@SEIU73
family and the work we do in school communities every day. Thank you, senator.
#faircontractnow
I stand with the educators and support staff of
@CTULocal1
and
@SEIU73
in their fight for the schools Chicago's students deserve. It's unconscionable for wealthy corporations to receive massive tax breaks while children go without school nurses and librarians.
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Solidarity is difficult in a pandemic, but organizing works.
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Our members who were arrested in today's Sterling Bay protest are free!!
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Karen taught us how to fight, and she taught us how to love. She bowed to no one, and gave strength to tens of thousands of teachers, PSRPs, counselors, clinicians, librarians and rank-and-file educators who followed her lead, and who live by her principles to this day.
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Chicago, did you know that there isn't a single librarian in any school in Austin? In fact, there is only one school librarian on the entire West Side.
Mayor Lightfoot and CPS have access to federal resources not seen in a generation. Those resources must go to student needs.
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Anyone who believes that Chicago's youth aren't brilliant, fierce and fully capable of processing dysfunction and organizing themselves in response doesn't know Chicago's youth. Which is part of the problem.
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To be clear: Educators of this city want to be in buildings with their students. We believe that classrooms are where our children should be. But as the results tonight show, Mayor Lightfoot and her CPS team have yet to provide safety for the overwhelming majority of schools.
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Kids did this.
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Say it again for the people in the back,
@quintabrunson
:
"Teachers are people, not appliances" 🙌🙌🙌
"Please, remember how important teachers are. Acknowledge the work they do every day, and for the love of God, pay them the money they deserve." - Quinta Brunson on
#SNL
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These were shared by educators returning to buildings this month.
We couldn’t agree more. The district has invested >$100M to ensure the health and safety of our community.
COVID testing ✅
Cleaning & sanitizing ✅
Ventilation & air purification ✅
Students/teachers in PreK/cluster programs have back safely for weeks
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Our teachers, clinicians, PSRPs, nurses, librarians and other rank-and-file have voted overwhelmingly to authorize all educators in Chicago Public Schools to conduct remote work only, starting tomorrow, Jan. 25, 2021.
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Please keep the mothers of Adam Toledo and Daunte Wright in your hearts.
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Thank you
@chancetherapper
@Reddsaidit
#AlexMoffat
#CecilyStrong
for repping our members on
@nbcsnl
. We ❤️ and appreciate.
#solidarity
#standwithCTU
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The action will end when one of the following conditions is met: The current surge in cases substantially subsides, or the mayor's team at CPS signs an agreement establishing conditions for return that are voted on and approved by the the CTU House of Delegates.
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President Sharkey and CTU counsel spoke to Mayor Lightfoot today. The conversation was cordial. The mayor did reiterate the disappointment she expressed Friday, referring to the "hyper-democratic" nature of the CTU. But as we all know, that is what unions should be: democratic.
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Thank you for your unwavering support,
@BernieSanders
!
#CTUSEIUstrike
#FairContractNow
#PutItInWriting
This takes real courage. I stand with over 30,000 members of
@CTUlocal1
and
@SEIU73
who are striking so the students and families of Chicago have the schools and resources they deserve.
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We are hearing reports that the Local School Council at Clemente has voted to remove Chicago police from the school.
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Good morning, Chicago. There are children and staff at Cameron Elementary suffering from the devastating loss of a 7-year-old classmate today. It’s pain that runs incredibly deep throughout the entire school community. Think of them, and pray for them.
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On the first day of Black History Month, Mayor Lightfoot and CPS leadership will lock out 80% of predominantly Black and Brown students and families who chose remote learning because it's safe.
Yet they refuse to make any improvements to remote learning.
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We are bargaining for the maximum amount of safety. We want to keep students, families and educators COVID-free, and we want to keep them alive. This is the agreement our school communities deserve.
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The CTU,
@SEIU73
, our allies, parents, students and school communities put 30,000 in the streets today, according to CPD estimates. Real numbers. Not Trump numbers. This isn’t a moment. It’s a movement. Thank you, all. ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿❤️
#CTUSEIUstrike
#putitinwriting
#faircontractnow
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Let's really be clear:
The educators in the room were working toward an agreement.
The politician is blowing it all to pieces.
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Students riding the CTA free of charge during the school year would be a great boost to working families.
Yesterday Lightfoot proudly announced free CTA rides for children on the first day of school, sponsored by a cooking oil company.
Meanwhile San Francisco made an investment that will allow all kids to ride Muni free *all year*. Chicago needs to catch up.
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Perhaps a temporary remote learning option would have helped.
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The school where Mayor Lightfoot is a parent is remote today.
As are eight unionized charter schools in Chicago, and schools in West Chicago, East St. Louis, Niles, Skokie, Morton Grove, Peoria, Gary, Evanston, parts of Algonquin, Barrington Hills and Hoffman Estates...
In an interview on CNBC as her administration is in a standoff with
@CTULocal1
, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said: We need to keep our kids in school, which is what we’re going to do in Chicago.”
She downplayed the “same old saber rattling by teachers union leadership.”
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BREAKING: Civil disobedience at the offices of Lincoln Yards developer Sterling Bay.
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Thousands of our members are CPS parents. To other parents and guardians of this city, we want you to know that when you put your children in our care, we put their well-being and safety first. We fight for your children like they are our own, because when we teach, they are.
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COVID has killed more than half a million Americans, including multiple members of households here in Chicago. Should letter grades really be a concern for students and families trying to survive a global crisis?
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Thank you, ladies of The View, for holding Chicago educators down today in support of our fight for the mitigation needed to keep everyone in our school communities safe. And prayers up for Whoopi Goldberg, who is recovering after testing positive for COVID-19.
#Solidarity
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You should both delete your accounts.
@ChicagosMayor
and
@GovRauner
You worked together to try bust CTU and destroy CPS. Quit playin.
It was a peaceful protest. Delete your account.
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We are in good hands. We fight, together, and we win, together!
@BernieSanders
#standwithCTU
#faircontractnow
#whenwefightwewin
When we stand together, when we organize, when we do not back down, we win. I'm proud to support
@CTULocal1
teachers in their fight for the schools our kids deserve.
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A Sangamon County judge has granted a temporary restraining order against mask mandates in 146 Illinois school districts — including CPS — blocking schools from requiring masks in classes and excluding students/staff from buildings if close contacts with positive COVID-19 cases.
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Students in the streets everywhere tonight, from Lincoln Park to Garfield Ridge to Bronzeville. It's a beautiful thing.
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While Mayor Lightfoot continues her lockout against Chicago public school teachers, clinicians, PSRPs, librarians and other educators, refusing to implement much-needed safety protocols as COVID-19 surges through schools, her staff continues working remotely.
#LoriLockout
Another small note from City Hall: As Mayor Lightfoot remains in a dispute with CTU over CPS remote learning and reopening, her chief of staff quietly extended work from home for MO staff at least another week.
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Chicago will have an elected representative school board. This is the will of the people. It is their legacy. It is Karen's legacy.
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This is a care room at a North Side elementary school — what Mayor Lightfoot and CPS have planned for reopening schools, and for children who show symptoms of COVID-19 during the day.
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Zero. Mayor Lightfoot has never attended a bargaining session of any kind, whether in person or virtual.
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Our money is on the woman who starved herself for 34 days to save her neighborhood school, and is taking a stand for justice for Anjanette Young, whose rights were violated by Chicago police and subsequently stepped on by the mayor.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Ald. Jeanette Taylor (20th) just got into a heated discussion in the back of the Chicago City Council chambers.
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When you reduce this to dollars and cents, it shows little understanding of who educators are and what we do. No one is in this for money. Our fight is a civil rights issue. We want justice and equity for all children in Chicago.
#CTUSEIUstrike
#putitinwriting
#faircontractnow
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When you have to put tens of thousands in the streets but still bargain for a fair contract. Fighting on two fronts. If anyone can multitask, it’s us.
#CTUSEIUstrike
#faircontractnow
#putitinwriting
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The 5,000 educators slated to return to Chicago public school buildings tomorrow aren’t the bullies. They’re the underdogs.
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CPS is locking out teachers who are exercising their legal right to safety by continuing to work remotely, declaring them AWOL and blocking access to teaching platforms.
There is also a serious situation regarding COVID-19 at a North Side elementary school.
More info to come.
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Rest in Power is trending in Illinois right now for our beloved Karen. The timelines are hers.
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But it’s ok to plan to reopen our schools?
NEWS: Mayor Lori Lightfoot is banning bars from serving alcohol indoors starting Friday, limiting indoor fitness classes to 10 people and banning personal services requiring the removal of masks, like shaves and facials.
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Today’s vote proves what we’ve known for more than two decades: Mayoral control of our schools—under any administration—has been an unmitigated disaster.
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Just a reminder that the mayor and CPS leadership had no plan for safety for our schools until members, communities and supporters took collective action. And they still fought stakeholders every step of the way.
Any gains are the result of the people’s work, not the bosses.
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