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.

“We must stop conflating violence with Black teen children.” — Denise Anita Hill In a powerful opinion piece, Hill writes: “What permanent, sustained spaces and infrastructure has the city ensured we intentionally build and maintain for our children as they navigate…

Federal agents tried to intimidate our community. We showed up with joy, resistance, and unity instead. Two weeks ago, ICE and DHS agents rolled onto the grounds of the National Puerto Rican Museum unannounced—no badges, no warrants, no justification. But elected officials and…

📢 CALLING ALL YOUTH! Come through to the "Oh Snap" Youth Block Party at CTU on July 31st, 2–7PM! Our youth deserve safe, joyful summer spaces—not curfews. 💯 🎶 Music, activities, community & more! 📍 Hosted at the Chicago Teachers Union Sponsored by @ctulocal1, Alderman…

“The students are losing their stability.” — Deena DuBose, 34-year veteran music teacher After 19 years at DePriest Elementary and 34 years in the classroom, Deena DuBose was laid off due to CPS budget cuts. She had just finished a year where her students learned to play the…

🚴🏽‍♂️ Join CTU members at the7th Annual Historic Bike Tour of the 1919 Chicago Race Riot on Saturday, July 26, as we ride alongside community partners to honor the legacy of Eugene Williams. Together, we’ll learn the truth about one of the darkest and most erased chapters in our…

We honor the life and legacy of Malcolm-Jamal Warner, a cultural icon whose work blended art, activism, and advocacy for Black youth. 🕊️ He performed, wrote poetry, and was an executive producer for The Magic School Bus on PBS. Through his life and career, he reminded us that…

📢 This week, we honored the late Congressman John Lewis and his vision for our nation at the #GoodTroubeLivesOn Rally in Chicago. We rallied with educators, faith leaders, working families, and our community to keep fighting for the futures we deserve—ones where everyone has…

“Are we going to codify what our students need—or side with those who want to dismantle the public good?”— CTU President Stacy Davis Gates at last month’s Board of Ed meeting. The moment demands a choice. Chicago Public Schools faces a $734M deficit. Trump’s Big Ugly Bill…

You can’t build stable, supportive learning environments for students when staff are cut year after year. Layoffs mean trusted adults disappear overnight. Lesson plans, relationships, and routines—all disrupted. Art teachers like Jess Park are beloved by their students, who are…

Like Mayor Brandon Johnson reminded us at this week’s Good Trouble Lives On Rally, we must protect public education. ✊🏾 Our cities, our communities, and our children deserve fully funded schools. This is the nation we can build. This is the vision the late John Lewis had for our…

🚨At yesterday’s #GoodTroubleLivesOn rally, CTU President Stacy Davis Gates reminds us that fascism is at our doorstop and we must fight back. We have the opportunity to build a nation where everyone receives the funding and the support they need to thrive. We have the…

Cuts to special education staff don’t build equity — they deepen injustice. CPS claims its staffing shakeup “isn’t about the budget.” But Special Education classroom assistants are being reassigned or cut entirely, cluster programs are losing supports, special education teachers…

10 years ago, the Dyett hunger strikers changed the course of public education in Chicago. For 34 days, parents, educators, and community leaders put their bodies on the line to save Dyett High School—the last open-enrollment public high school in the neighborhood. They weren’t…

The Supreme Court just gave the green light to a presidential power grab that guts the very agency meant to protect our students - the US Department of Education. In McMahon v. New York, the Supreme Court sided with mass firings and chaos over stability and equity. Justice…

We’re facing the most brazen rollback of civil rights in generations. Trump is trying to divide us, but we know the power of coming together. We are not spectators to history. We are the makers of it. Join CTU, fellow union members, faith community leaders, and good…

“ThechildrenofChicagodonotdeservepatchworkfixesorthebreakdownoftheverysystemsmeanttosupportthem.Theydeservestability.Theydeservelongevity.” — Ashley Harris, CPS parent and educator. Budgets are not math problems—they are choices. Governor Pritzker and Illinois state lawmakers…

“Paraprofessionals and school-related personnel are often overlooked because of their support roles. They are the last ones hired and often the first ones fired when budgets get tight. This certainly seems true right now as the Trump administration withholds nearly $7 billion…

CTU applauds Mayor Brandon Johnson and the alderpersons who stood firm against a harmful, Jim Crow-era approach to public safety. You don’t protect Black youth by criminalizing them. You protect them by investing in their brilliance, dreams, and futures. You create space for…

🚨 Trump banned undocumented children from Head Start preschool. “This decision undermines the fundamental commitment that the country has made to children...” — Yasmina Vinci, National Head Start Association chalkbeat.org/2025/07/10/no-…

“If you ally yourself with others, and you understand the power of solidarity, then you can withstand this. And not only can you just survive it — you can actually see a day where you expand democracy.” — CTU President Stacy Davis Gates. 📖 Read more: rethinkingschools.org/articles/the-c…