And in this moment I really and truly feel accountable for their sacrifice. Weve got this amazing band program. And theyd close it anyway. I think Stacy is a remarkably effective public spokesperson. And I think because of that, its easier for people to extract characters and focus on them. 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. chicago.suntimes.com. 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The 2019 teachers strike, which took place five months into Lightfoots term, captured national attention for both its length and the groundbreaking issues it brought to the bargaining table. [4] The CTU Constitution also identifies solidarity with other labor unions (a relationship of mutual assistance and cooperation with organized labor) as a core purpose of the CTU. She attended Saint Marys College, the University of Notre Dame, and Concordia University. These arent just personality conflicts, Sharkey tells me. So have their teachers. Ms. Davis Gates lives on the South Side of Chicago with her husband and three children. The challengers. The Chicago Teachers Union is an organization of educators dedicated to advancing and promoting quality public education, improving teaching and learning conditions, and protecting members rights. There are lots of ways in which they dont really want to be there, Sharkey says. Chicago Teachers Union, History. Stacy says, What about the rest of the kids? Sharkey recounts. It was all I could do to refrain from leaping up from my desk at work and cheering. Wikipedia. Under her leadership, the unions political action fund and member activity in the political and legislative arena has grown significantly. Widely known as the firebrand counterpart to wonky union head Jesse Sharkey and viewed by some as at least as powerful among the rank and file this former CPS teacher gained a reputation for backing down to no one, not even Mayor Lightfoot, who reportedly resorted to barring her from final negotiations. [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. On the elevator, I asked her if her speech was prepared. Action Network, CTU PAC. Accessed June 02, 2020. This outcome led the CFT to prioritize collective bargaining rights as a primary goal. Sometimes I feel like Im living my life as a spectator, says Gates, the unions vice president and heir apparent. The Chicago Teachers Union has some 20,000 teacher and clinician members. Lolly Voss, I heard you for the first time on 820am in Chicago, youre the voice that the children of Chicago NEED. What are the multiple roles of a successful introductory paragraph? And shes not about to let anyone stand in her way. From 1969 to 1987, CTU staged nine walkouts, according to the Chicago Tribune. Sharkey has been with the CTU since 1998, previously serving as the unions vice president. We dont have infrastructure in our public schools to deal with the impact of the traumas our youths walk into our schools with, Gates says. I remember spending a lot of time in preparation for classesgetting primary sources together, getting supporting documentation together, making connections through newspaper articles and periodicals that related back to the historical thing I was teaching. She and her students attended the community meetings that were part of the school-closing process. Guidestar, Chicago Teachers Union, 2017 990. Accessed June 02, 2020. We felt like the system was being sabotaged by the people who were in charge of it, and the union was the one institution that had both the interest and the ability to do something about that. 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. 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. West Ridge YMCA receives $3.75 million in U.S. funds for renovations, possible reopening U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky helped secure funds for the High Ridge YMCA, which is now being used to house migrants, two years after the facility was closed to the public. Stacys relationship with the mayor and CPS CEO is toxic, and this will make it very difficult for her to deliver for us.. And if you show up and youre not serious, Stacy will get that within two seconds of being in a room. Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago Photo: Colin Boyle/Associated Press South Side of Chicago CTU argued that this was an undue burden. It depresses you. She has raised millions of dollars to elect classroom teachers to all levels of local government and to challenge school privatizers and union-busters. After her twelve-year career as a classroom educator, Stacy married her political ambitions with her passion for educational advocacy and joined the revitalized Chicago Teachers Union. Students have lost parents, grandparents, and caregivers. While the CTU mission is, ostensibly, to improve public education, most of the identified purposes of the CTU are related to improving compensation and protecting the job security of union members, as well as growing the union. While interest groups on all sides sought Obamas involvement in the negotiation, President Obamas spokesman said that Obama has not expressed any opinion or made any assessment about this particular incident. [16], In 2018, CTU supported the first major strike by charter school teachers in US history. As a rank-and-file member, she was active in the charter outreach committee, clinicians steering committee and the CTU Latino Caucus policy committee. Occupation: Vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union. The ongoing pandemic has disproportionately affected Chicagos Black and brown residents, who make up close to 90 percent of CPS families. After the Chicago Teachers Union achieved the power to collectively bargain, CTU teachers went on strike nine times in twenty years, with four strikes in the first seven years. As a teacher and union delegate at Englewood High School, Jackson fought school closings when former CEO Arne Duncan called the school a culture of failure and started a phase-out in 2005. Stacy Davis Gates is the President of the Chicago Teachers Union. Sharkey was first elected vice president in 2010, when Karen Lewis was elected CTUs president. Really tired. 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. Her detractors blame her for contributing to a contentious relationship between the CTU and the mayor that resulted in an 11-school-day teachers strike in October 2019the longest in decades. Maybe not, but she can deliver one hell of a speech. . In addition to leading the political and legislative agendas for the CTU, Stacy is a regular contributor to radio shows and print publications. But it was an early taste, she says, of airing a grievance, of pushing back on behalf of those who arent in the room. And there was always a segment of my class that was disconnected, that didnt want to hear it or didnt engage fully.. 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.. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. CPS has had four CEOs in the past seven years, including twoBarbara Byrd-Bennett and Forrest Claypoolwho left in disgrace. Chicago is a city that can leave behind, even devour, its young. Sharkey taught at Chicago Vocational Career Academy (CVCA). She didnt have any notes with her onstage. She attended Saint Marys College, the University of Notre Dame, and Concordia University. She chaperoned the prom. [19] Ultimately, when the 11-day strike ended, the city of Chicago declined to incorporate housing policy into the contract with CTU. The couples son is named after his father. When you work on a team, when youre doing coalition work, its important for your team to understand the dynamics of gender and race because those things do impact the institution you lead as well. Accessed June 02, 2020. Stacy Davis Gates Stacy Davis Gates is vice president of the 28,000-member Chicago Teachers Union and a mother of three children in Chicago's public schools. Shouts of Talk, Stacy! filled the room. It made me feel like a failure, says Gates. [1] Law, Justin, The Courts vs. I was hurt. It turned me upside down., In 2005, in Gatess second year teaching at Englewood High, CPS announced the school would close. Thats my family, she said. This effort resulted in both support and opposition. [33], CTU and CTU PAC paid $316,000 to United Working Families, a labor-union-aligned political organization funded by CTU and SEIU Healthcare Illinois/Indiana, to conduct organizing and advocacy in line with the policies and candidates supported by the Chicago Teachers Union. You may use these HTML tags and attributes:
, Enter your email address to receive new and updated COAL website news articles. But she didnt play any games. They were so fearless in their ability to dream of me in this moment. In Gatess office at CTU headquarters, a Notorious SDG print with her likeness hangs above her deska riff on those Notorious RBG prints that were ubiquitous for a while. Website by Governmental Strategic Solutions, LLC. She played in student-staff basketball games. The rhetoric on education reform and pension reform in Chicagois upside down. While Chicago officials did not give them everything they demanded, the city did agree to a 16% raise over five years, smaller class sizes and more support staff, including social workers, nurses, librarians, and others. One-on-One with CTU President-Elect Stacy Davis Gates. Jackson Potter is the Vice President of the Chicago Teachers Union. 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. Prior to working on staff at CTU, Sharkey was a social studies teacher and a political activist. They are sort of the bedrock constituency of our public schools., Gates tells me she is focused on May 20on winning the top CTU spot and following in the footsteps of Lewis, her friend and role model, who shaped her management style. We, teachers, and other educational personnel in the Chicago Public Schools, being members of the Chicago Teachers Union, do hereby declare this Union to have the following purposes: to protect and improve the services of the public schools as a social agency for developing the capacities of the young and promoting adult education; to promote and guarantee efficient and faithful service from us to the public and to insure to us in return for that service a fair reward and a just security; in accordance with the Agreement between the Board of Education of the City of Chicago and Chicago Teachers Union, to assert, secure, and protect the inherent and fundamental equity in our jobs; as the sole collective bargaining agent for members of the bargaining unit, to establish and maintain orderly and practicable democratic processes in the management of the Chicago public schools, in accordance with the terms of the Agreement; to maintain a relationship of mutual assistance and cooperation with organized labor; to unify the educators of traditional public schools and public charter schools in the City of Chicago, together with other Chicago-area educators that may join with this Union. 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