I remember we were never able to take a book home because they didnt have a book for every student, says Latoyia Kimbrough, a 2005 graduate who now works as in-house legal counsel for CTU. The challengers. An accredited provider of Illinois Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE), Chicago-Kent's Continuing Legal and Professional Education (CLE) programs offer participants an affordable opportunity to network with other practitioners, discuss current issues and trends, and problem solve with those that write, teach, and practice in the area. She shut that down pretty quickly., Kimbrough remembers Gates and Potter, Englewood Highs debate coach at the time, playing in those basketball games. Then I started thinking that would put me on the wrong end of the spectrum of justice, she says. She remembers Arne Duncan, CPSs CEO at the time, delivering the news at her building. This is not like a couple of angry Black women.. Bernie Sanders, also vying for the presidential nomination, attended a CTU rally before the strike. Closures as a reform measure became an option in 1995, when Mayor Richard M. Daley gained control of the citys schools under a new state law. But Sharkey and Davis Gates also have come under fire from a group of educators calling themselves the Members First Caucus, who planned to challenge them in the May election. (Current CEO Pedro Martinez, in office since September, didnt respond to requests for an interview for this story.) The Chicago Teachers Union has some 20,000 teacher and clinician members. Before her election to the office of President in 2022, Ms. Davis Gates served for four years as Vice President of the Union. While at the CTU, Ms. Davis Gates has been the architect of bold political and legislative campaigns for the schools and city that all Chicagoans deserve. Dont be discouraged in the moment of great need. Tara Stamps, a CTU administrator and daughter of the late community activist Marion Nzinga Stamps, was onstage introducing the Jammin for PEACE speakers and performers. [41], The CTU Vice President is Stacy Davis Gates, who is also executive vice president of the Illinois Federation of Teachers and the Chairwoman of the United Working Families political organization. Whenever I see our sister, you know who I see? Stamps called out. The running track was barely usable, with dangerous dips in its lanes. There are those who assertin letters to the editor, in editorials, in op-eds, on Twitter, from podiumsthat the CTUs fights actively harm children and families in Chicago. So we have to be astute historians and know that our voice is necessary to this moment. [2] In the 2010s and early 2020s, the CTU has aligned with the ideological radical left; in 2019,the union faced criticism after representatives including a union executive board member traveled to Venezuela in support of the de facto socialist dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro. The Chicago Teachers Union has elected a new president: Stacy Davis Gates. Campbell, Alexia Fernndez, The 11-day teachers strike in Chicago paid off, Vox, November 01, 2019. The Chicago Teachers Unions monthly executive board meeting was scheduled at the same time as its Jammin for PEACE celebration, which overlapped with a group of Nicholson STEM Academy teachers gathering virtually with their union delegate to talk pedagogy, burnout, and whatever else needed airinga discussion Gates had promised to attend. They are a measure that Duncan, who went on to become U.S. education secretary, exercised frequently during his eight-year stint as CEO and that Rahm Emanuel put to use as mayor. Lolly Voss, I heard you for the first time on 820am in Chicago, youre the voice that the children of Chicago NEED. And in this moment I really and truly feel accountable for their sacrifice. It felt demoralizing. Then You Havent Been Paying Attention. chicagotribune.com. Stacy Davis Gates EDITOR'S NOTE, OCTOBER 30, 2019: The profile below was first published on August 2, 2019. Whos the president of the Chicago Teachers Union? In response, CTU blamed a Koch-funded law project, called the lawsuit anti-worker, and argued that, by only allowing members to revoke their dues authorizations in August, they were operating within the letter of the law. [22], In addition to its status as Local 1 of the American Federation of Teachers, CTU is also a member of other left-wing labor groups, including the Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL), the Illinois State Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (ISFL-CIO), the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), and the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT). Unless, that is, she is somehow beaten out in the May 20 election by a dissenting caucus of Chicago Public Schools employees called Members First. When my members hear how much I love them, they hear Laura., Shes loath to squander the opportunities they provided her. I aint said live yet. Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Stacy Davis Gates was elected president of the organization Friday, after a race against two other candidates vying to take the place of outgoing president Jesse Sharkey. Joshua Cowen and Katharine O. Strunk, How Do Teachers Unions Influence Education Policy? A 2021 study by the University of Chicagos Inclusive Economy Lab found that one in seven CPS students experiences homelessness. Accessed June 02, 2020. Its a high bar. Issa, Nader, Chicago Teachers Union sues Betsy DeVos, CPS over coronavirus special education requirements, Chicago Sun-Times, May 20, 2020. Previously, Gates served as the Political and Legislative Director for CTU. Chicago Teachers Union Foundation, Grantees List. Before Sharkeys announcement, Gatess name also had been brought up as a possible contender. Accessed June 02, 2020. The Chicago Teachers Unions heir apparent sees herself as a righteous champion of not just educators but of students. Maria T. Moreno worked in CPS as a bilingual education teacher and as a speech-language pathologist prior to her election as CTU financial secretary in May 2016. But she would later learn that it wasnt always so level upstream. Salary Breakdown (2019) My pawpaw used to watch it, and I watched it with him, she says. The CTU represents its members through collective bargaining for compensation, benefits, employee work conditions, and school governance. Stacy Davis Gates is president of the Chicago Teachers Union and executive vice president of the Illinois Federation of Teachers. DJN. The CTUF also funds some professional development programs for teachers and scholarships for underserved communities. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Shouts of Talk, Stacy! filled the room. Accessed June 02. Accessed June 02, 2020. Accessed June 02, 2020. It really makes you understand how the city works and who the city works for and who the city doesnt, says Dave Stieber, a social studies and poetry teacher at Kenwood Academy High School and a vocal CTU supporter on social media. My granny was a teenage mothera teenage single mother with an alcoholic father who was a sharecropper. Under her leadership, the unions political action fund and member activity in the political and legislative arena has grown significantly. American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO. Members First is running, in part, on the belief that the union needs to have a better relationship with city officials. When the CTU had the city nailed to the wall during last years 11-day-long strike, the unions No. Masterson, Matt, CTU Members Approve Merger With Charter School Teachers Union, WTTW, January 30, 2018. This is a logo for Chicago Teachers Union. Im PROUD of you. Chicago Tribune, August 20, 2019. Assets: $16,818,501, The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is the teachers union for 25,000 teachers, paraprofessionals, and other public school employees in the Chicago, Illinois public school system, the third-largest school system in the United States. [43], https://www.aft.org/periodical/psrp-reporter/fall-2015/form-more-perfect-union ^. Gatess allies, though, credit her with helping transform the landscape at the citys 636 public schools, which are on track to add a nurse and social worker to every building by 2024a hard-fought victory in the strike three years ago. Enrollment had declined precipitously. I think about the lessons I got as a kid: You have to be twice as good to get half as much. 2020 Chicago magazine / A Chicago Tribune Media Group website. Guidestar, Chicago Teachers Union, 2017 990. 1971: Four-day strike results in salary increases and full health benefits. You are confronted with unparalleled grief., Stacys brilliant, Sharkey says. Wagner Acerbi Horta and Brendan Rigney, Beyond the picket line: Union clout, tallied, Center for Illinois Politics, October 27, 2019. Im going to continue to embody both of their hopes and dreams, but also provide a pathway for the Hazel and the Laura in my household right now, that they get to be whoever they want to be in this world. Later she tells me: I cant advocate on behalf of public education and the children of this city and educators in this city without it taking root in my own household.. Age: 43 Ms. Davis Gates is currently on leave from the classroom, where she taught high school social studies for over a decade at Englewood, Clemente, and Mason Community Links High Schools. Our courage, our organizing, our value are necessary in this moment.. Ms. Stacy Davis Gates is the Political and Legislative Director of the Chicago Teachers Union AFT Local 1. She walked off the stage and headed upstairs to join the Nicholson STEM Academy teachers meeting. I was angry. Or, Omicrons peaking. Accessed June 01, 2010. It was all I could do to refrain from leaping up from my desk at work and cheering. CTU is a local union of the American Federation of Teachers, the countrys second-largest national teachers union. This is an organization that historically has represented an awful lot of important stuff in the aspirations of working-class Chicagoans in general, but Black working-class Chicagoans especially. God Bless. Year: 2016: Full Name: She didnt have any notes with her onstage. So not only does she really have a lot of head for strategy and thinking about politics, but she also tracks a tremendous amount of things, in both a good and a bad way. Thats one reason negotiations have been fractious with the mayors team. And someone with those qualitiessensitive, brilliant, cares a lot about justiceif youre a Black woman with those qualities, you get a lot of people who take umbrage., He recalls a story that Gates told him years ago about being the only Black girl in the gifted program at her South Bend elementary school. She has raised millions of dollars to elect classroom teachers to all levels of local government, and challenge school privatizers and union busters. She played in student-staff basketball games. May 24, 2022 | Blair Paddock. Chicago Teachers Union Foundation, About. Compensation for top executives and Board members ranged from $120,000 to $330,000. She also serves as a board member for the Action Center on Race & the Economy (ACRE), a nexus for organizations working at the intersection of the struggle for racial justice and Wall Street accountability. Johnson was paid a $103,000 salary by CTU, in addition to his $85,000 salary as a Cook County Commissioner. What are the benefits of believing in God? We dont win half the things we achieved in 2019 without Stacy, says Jackson Potter, the unions former staff coordinator. Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Stacy Davis Gates was elected president of the union Friday following a months-long, hard-fought battle against two challengers to succeed outgoing. Before her election to the office of President in 2022, Ms. Davis Gates served for four years as Vice President of the Union. Accessed June 01, 2020. If the labor movements instinct has been to reduce demands in order to sound reasonable, the new CTU took the opposite approach, McAlevey wrote. Sharkey was first elected vice president in 2010, when Karen Lewis was elected CTUs president. (Lewis died in 2021.) Accessed June 02, 2020. Accessed June 01, 2020. We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us. Accessed June 02, 2020. What are the multiple roles of a successful introductory paragraph? Chicago Teachers Union, Press Release: STRIKE! She sees work stoppages and strikes as the first step and not the last one. The results were mixed for CTU. Accessed June 02, 2020. That was the moment I was radicalized.. She says there were fights every day on the corner of Western and Division. When the group first challenged the unions current administration three years ago, Sharkey won reelection handily, with two-thirds of the vote. In fact, it irks her that theres an expectation that she and Lightfoot should get along because theyre both Black women. While at the CTU, Ms. Davis Gates has been the architect of bold political and legislative campaigns for the schools and city that all Chicagoans deserve. If someone mistreats her, she notices. [31], Between March 2018 and July 2019, just prior to the 2019 teachers strike, the Chicago Teachers Union spent almost $1.5 million on political activities. Accessed June 01, 2020. And if you show up and youre not serious, Stacy will get that within two seconds of being in a room. She has raised millions of dollars to elect classroom teachers to all levels of local government and to challenge school privatizers and union-busters. They remain on strike. Im not the caricature in the letters to the editor. But caricatures are easier to digestand dismissthan the deficits and disinvestments plaguing public schools. So have their teachers. We see our schools closed and defunded. My credibility came slowly, and it had nothing to do with my instruction or my understanding of content, she says. Action Network, CTU PAC. Chicago Teachers Union, History. 2 was swinging the hammer, appearing before the cameras with the unwavering narrative that the well-being of students was the unions single overriding concern. She also serves as a board member for the Action Center on Race & the Economy (ACRE), a nexus for organizations working at the intersection of the struggle for racial justice and Wall Street accountability. The union made a push for affordable housing for students and teachers to be written into their contract, along with sanctuary protection for immigrantsunprecedented demands. After 12 years as one of the primary faces of the Chicago Teachers Union, Jesse Sharkey is returning to the classroom. Under famous union leader Margaret Haley (known as the Lady Labor Slugger), the CTF recognized that it needed to persuade political officials to achieve these goals. It depresses you. Occupation: Vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union. She is also the Executive Vice President of the Illinois Federation of Teachers and an Executive Vice President of the American Federation of Teachers. Widely popular with its more than 25,000 members, she was considering a run for mayor when she was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, in 2014. Chicago Teachers Union vice president Stacy Davis Gates talks about the looming vote to decide whether members will work remotely, in opposition to the schoo. [27], In 2019, CTUF grantees included a mix of progressive activist organizations and community charity organizations like the Action Now Institute, Equip for Equality, Grassroots Collaborative, Rainbows for All Children, and the UIC Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy. Her mother was born in the South and left during the Great Migration. Stieber began his career at TEAM Englewood Academy, a public high school that, along with an Urban Prep Academies charter school, took over the building that once housed Englewood High School. I think Stacy is a remarkably effective public spokesperson. There are lots of ways in which they dont really want to be there, Sharkey says. [26], In 2018, despite the infusion of $48 million from the sale of the building just a few years prior, the CTUF cut back, reducing its grants from $1.9 million to 50 grantees in 2017 to $1 million to 37 grantees in 2018. Sharkey announced Wednesday that he will step down when his term expires June 30. [39] The World Socialist Web Site has called Sharkey a leading member of the International Socialist Organization. [40] Sharkey lives in a $1.5 million home, and sends his own children to magnet and selective enrollment schools. Accessed June 02, 2020. 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One of the first things she would say to you was What dont I know? We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. The gifted students were invited on a field trip to Philadelphia to see the Liberty Bell and other historic landmarks. But that doesnt faze Gates. Chicago Teachers Union Foundation, Our History. ), My counsel to her is One thing at a time, Sharkey says. It will not happen on my watch., At her own news conference, Gates fired back, going after Lightfoot personally: This mayor is unfit to lead our city. 07 Feb 2023 20:32:54 By her second semester of teaching, Gates started looking for ways to make inroads with her students that had little to do with curriculum. Chicago Teachers Union, CTU History. That the work stoppages rob students of crucial instructional time. The CTU is no small thing. CPS has had four CEOs in the past seven years, including twoBarbara Byrd-Bennett and Forrest Claypoolwho left in disgrace. [34], Between October 2018 and October 2019, the CTU donated $1.7 million to political campaigns and related political action committees. [25] Upon the sale of the tower, the CTUF refocused its mission towards teacher advocacy and grantmaking to underserved communities. (When asked about it on the Crains Chicago Business podcast A.D. Q&A in January, Gates said that the notion of her running was something she first heard from Lightfoots lips and was not a priority for her. WTTW, Chicago Teachers Union Bargaining Summary as of 10/29/2019. So I want you to stay encouraged, Chicago Teachers Union. Chicago Teachers Union affiliations include the Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL), the Illinois State Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (ISFL-CIO), the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT), and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). . Students have lost parents, grandparents, and caregivers. Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. Gates took the stage. [23], The Chicago Teachers Union also operates a philanthropic organization, the Chicago Teachers Union Foundation (CTUF). Stacy Davis Gates has served as the Political and Legislative Director for the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) for the past six years. At a press conference shortly after the majority of CTU members voted in January to work remotely, Lightfoot accused the union of turning Chicago into a laughingstock all across the country and declared: We will not pay you to abandon your posts and your children at a time when they and their families need us most. It had to do with finding human connections., Kimbrough was in Gatess first African American history class. Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Stacy Davis Gates speaks as the CTU and the local school council held a news conference on Sept. 28, 2021, outside Jensen Elementary School in North Lawndale. [20], In 2020, the Chicago Teachers Union filed a lawsuit against Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, as well as the U.S. Department of Education and the Chicago Board of Education, claiming that new special education regulations imposed an impossible burden on the teachers during the coronavirus pandemic. In 2020, the city was running an $838 million budget deficit, and Chicagos school system bonds have been rated below investment-grade in recent years. I didnt know what I was doing. While the purpose of the Foundation was to support retired and disabled teachers, very few teachers ever lived at Fewkes Tower, and only seven of the 224 apartments in Fewkes Tower were occupied by retired CPS teachers when the building was sold by CTUF in 2014. Day, Marcus, The International Socialist Organization backs Mayor Emanuels attack on Chicago teachers, World Socialist Web Site, February 18, 2016. Szalinski, Ben, The new contract continues a moratorium on school closings despite plummeting student enrollment, Illinois Policy, November 22, 2019. the Chicago Teachers Union Stacy Davis Gates and her leadership team have put their interests ahead of our unions members and the students we serve, Mary Esposito-Usterbowski, the groups presidential candidate and a citywide school psychologist, told me in an email response to my interview request. Stacy can be contacted at [emailprotected]. They were a constant in a time when things were just all over the place. The U.S. Department of Education said that CTUs lawsuit was nothing more than political posturing for a headline. [21], In May 2020, the Chicago Teachers Union was sued by a Chicago teacher who was being forced to pay CTU dues despite crossing the picket line during the 2019 strike and withdrawing from CTU membership. [24], The Foundation was founded in 1969 when it received the Fewkes Tower a 29-story high rise building in Chicago from the Chicago Teachers Union, which had built the tower in 1963 to provide affordable housing to retired teachers. Dont be compelled to turn around and walk backwards in the time of need. Claiming dibs on revenue sources that dont exist and saying the rich will pay for it? Stacys relationship with the mayor and CPS CEO is toxic, and this will make it very difficult for her to deliver for us.. Your visits to the show are always one of my favorite features but today (Ben Jarovsky 06/27/18), you burned down the house. Christel was a Chicago Teachers Union organizer during the 2012 strike, as well as the three-day march in 2013 and CTU Summer Organizing Institute prior to becoming a Union field representative in 2017. This site uses cookies and other tracking technologies to assist with navigation and your ability to provide feedback, analyze your use of our products and services, and assist with our promotional and marketing efforts. In the absence of a union endorsement, two senior CTU leaders, Jesse Sharkey and Stacy Davis Gates, endorsed the Vermont Senator. You should be ashamed. Accessed June 02, 2020. The Chicago Teacher Federation threw itself into political advocacy, organizing behind candidates who were favorable to their goals. It makes you angry. Accessed June 02, 2020. Accessed June 02, 2020. In the year prior, CTU had lost $4 million. A few minutes past 6 p.m., with the board meeting streaming on her iPhone, Gates walked through the refurbished warehouse in West Town that serves as the unions headquarters and into the Jacqueline B. Vaughn Hall, named for first African American woman to lead the CTU. Subscribe for free today! The Executive Board of the Chicago Teachers Union is comprised of the elected officers, committee chairs, appointed members and union staff. She is also the Executive Vice President of the Illinois Federation of Teachers and an Executive Vice President of the American Federation of Teachers. Despite Chicago Public School enrollment dropping by over 6,000 students in 2019, and by 80,000 students since 2000, the Chicago Teachers Union has refused to allow schools, even failing schools, to close. 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