But she didnt play any games. [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. These arent just personality conflicts, Sharkey tells me. Stacy Davis Gates, vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union, speaks in Chicago, Dec. 9, 2018. 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. Students would try you a lot, Kimbrough says. 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. Holocaust-denier gets nearly 40 percent of vote in 2 Mount Greenwood precincts. 1)Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight, 2)When they call you a terrorist, a black lives matter memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele, foreword by Angela Y. Davis, 3)How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates. Even as a sixth grader, it bugged herjust as the injustice and tragedy she sees now motivate her. It was a tough year, she says. 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. 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. Accessed June 01, 2020. Net assets declined to less than $1 million. It makes you angry. In the fall of 2019, she helped to lead a 15-day strike and to negotiate an historic contract that provides for smaller class sizes, ensures a nurse and social worker in every Chicago public school, secures sanctuary protections for immigrant families, and supports students and families experiencing homelessness. 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. Both branches took the same path, Gates says. I was angry. The CTU represents more than 25,000 teachers, paraprofessional and school-related personnel, and school clinicians working in the Chicago Public Schools and, by extension, the students and families they serve. 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. Accessed June 02, 2020. When the . You are confronted with different children from different households coming inside a school community who are processing rape and violence and trauma in so many different ways. Accessed June 02, 2020. We got next because theres a Stacy Gates.. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Accessed June 02, 2020. 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. Chicago Teachers Union, History. But they had an air of choreography, she says, of an outcome predetermined before anyone even spoke. It was a lot of things, Sharkey says about not seeking reelection. 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. [1] Chicago Teachers Union, About. Stacy Davis GatesPresident, Chicago Teachers Union Stacy Davis Gates is the President of the Chicago Teachers Union and the Executive Vice President of the I. Accessed June 02, 2020. Gregory, Ted, Why CPS/teacher relations have been so contentious for so long, Crains Chicago Business, October 24, 2019. 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. Stacy Davis Gates has served as the Political and Legislative Director for the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) for the past six years. So I want you to stay encouraged, Chicago Teachers Union. Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. 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. It irks Gates that theres an expectation that she and the mayor should get along. We sat at a table debating ventilation during an airborne pandemic. 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. The Members First caucus came in with 27%, and the REAL caucus with 17%. For nearly 20 years before becoming president of the teachers union, she was a high school chemistry teacher. 2020 Chicago magazine / A Chicago Tribune Media Group website. Chicago Tribune, August 20, 2019. Im not the caricature in the letters to the editor. But caricatures are easier to digestand dismissthan the deficits and disinvestments plaguing public schools. Yet they remain a part of Gates. Accessed June 01, 2020. It depresses you. CTU Vice President Stacy Davis Gates speaks about parents keeping their CPS students remote until Lightfoot's CPS team provides testing and safety guarantees as teachers, parents and members of the Chicago Teachers Union outside Park Manor Elementary on Jan. 3, 2022. It seems pretty dangerous. Dont be compelled to turn around and walk backwards in the time of need. And she's not about to let anyone. Wikipedia. 1969: Two-day strike results in salary increases, teacher aides, and class size maximum. Dont be discouraged in the moment of great need. But she would later learn that it wasnt always so level upstream. Accessed June 02, 2020. 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. It made me feel powerless. She shut that down pretty quickly., Kimbrough remembers Gates and Potter, Englewood Highs debate coach at the time, playing in those basketball games. Accessed June 01, 2020. Prior to that, she served as the unions Political and Legislative Director. Chicago Teachers Union, On the CTU Sale of Fewkes Tower, April 30, 2015. 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. She has raised millions of dollars to elect classroom teachers to all levels of local government and to challenge school privatizers and union-busters. 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. Accessed June 01, 2020. She attended Saint Marys College, the University of Notre Dame, and Concordia University. She has raised millions of dollars to elect classroom teachers to all levels of local government and to challenge school privatizers and union-busters, most prominently Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his rubber-stamp City Council in 2015.Ms. Accessed June 02, 2020. And theyre like, No, its just for the honor kids. And shes like, Well, then I aint going. I mean, imagine being that kid in third grade or fifth grade whos like, No. Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago Mr. Potter has been an education activist since he led a student walkout at his high school, Whitney Young, in 1995 to push for equitable funding for schools in Illinois. 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. The auditorium was named for playwright Lorraine Hansberry, who graduated in 1947. Photo: CLARISSA BONET | HAIR AND MAKEUP: DENISE MILLOY/MAKEUP MAGIC INC. Age: 43. They take away the things we need the most in order to survive. Chicago Teachers Union, Constitution. Discord between CTU leadership and the mayor is hardly novel, either. [8], In 1916, the Chicago Teacher Federation founded the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and became the Local 1. They led every meeting with school-based discussions of billionaires, banks and racism., The union started partnering with community organizations known largely for fighting gentrificationthe Pilsen Alliance, Logan Square Neighborhood Alliance, Kenwood-Oakland Community Organizationto attend school board meetings and host community forums on school closures. What are the benefits of believing in God? 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. Ms. Stacy Davis Gates is the Political and Legislative Director of the Chicago Teachers Union AFT Local 1. Chicago Teachers Union vice president Stacy Davis Gates talks about the looming vote to decide whether members will work remotely, in opposition to the school district's orders.Subscribe to FOX 32 Chicago: https://www.youtube.com/c/FOX32ChicagoNews?sub_confirmation=1Watch FOX 32 Chicago Live: https://www.fox32chicago.com/liveFOX 32 Chicago delivers breaking news, live events, investigations, politics, entertainment, business news and local stories from Chicago and across the nation.Watch more FOX 32 Chicago on YouTube:FOX 32 Headlines: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2-nR6U1joOT92lWD_QLYoNijiDo9uYaPGood Day Chicago: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2-nR6U1joORm02SSjflpEVzL0ydEqeFuSpecial reports and stories: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2-nR6U1joOTGGgDx9B31HcT9IM60Al0-Download the FOX 32 Chicago News app: https://fox32chicago.onelink.me/KNQ9?pid=social\u0026c=youtube\u0026af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fox32chicago.com%2FappsDownload the FOX 32 Chicago Weather app: https://euklz.app.link/Px4UxyP4PebFollow FOX 32 Chicago on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Fox32Chicago/Follow FOX 32 Chicago on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fox32news/Follow FOX 32 Chicago on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fox32news/Subscribe to the FOX 32 Chicago newsletter: https://www.fox32chicago.com/newsletters It was simple: Someone did something wrong, there was an investigation and they always got the wrong guy, and Perry always got them off. STACY DAVIS GATES, DELEGATE. She also serves as a board member for ACRE, The Action Center on Race & the Economy, a nexus for organizations working at the intersection of racial justice and Wall Street accountability.Ms. $497.86: Less than $46,439* $721.68: Paraprofessionals and School-related Personnel: N/A: The Chicago Teachers Union has elected a new president: Stacy Davis Gates. I was hurt. [28], The Chicago Teachers Union also operates the CTU PAC, a campaign committee that supports candidates who fight against school reform. Karen was a curious leader, Gates says. 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. However, a growing movement of labor organizations has begun aggressively campaigning for radical-left economic policy under the branding bargaining for the common good, including intersectional policy efforts in labor negotiations. It had to do with finding human connections., Kimbrough was in Gatess first African American history class. Chicago Public Schools social studies teacher, labor leader, President of the Chicago Teachers Union since 2014, Paraprofessionals and School-related Personnel. Website by Governmental Strategic Solutions, LLC. If you dont fight for it, you wont receive it.. All rights reserved. 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. Shouts of Talk, Stacy! filled the room. Shes on a one-woman kamikaze mission to destroy our public schools. She also called Lightfoot micromanaging and a bad boss in an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times and told the New York Times: She does not know how to play well with others., But beneath the tensionindeed, fueling the tensionis a fundamental disagreement over policy. 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. Age: 43 She has raised millions of dollars to elect classroom teachers to all levels of local government and to challenge school privatizers and union-busters. South Side of Chicago I think thats an achievement, that we are all free to have differing thought processes on anything, and that women have voice in a city as dynamic as Chicago. 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Grandmother Hazel died a week before her namesake was born. [9] It would not rejoin the AFT until 1937, when the Chicago Teacher Federation and various other Chicago teacher organizations consolidated to create the Chicago Teachers Union, which once again joined the American Federation of Teachers as Local 1. She sees work stoppages and strikes as the first step and not the last one. While a victory for the teachers union, the concessions came at a significant cost estimated at about $500 million to Chicagos already-shaky financial condition. Chicago Teachers Union 1901 W. Carroll Ave. Chicago, IL 60612. If the labor movements instinct has been to reduce demands in order to sound reasonable, the new CTU took the opposite approach, McAlevey wrote. And they tried her a lot because she was younger. 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