to flourish. Chalkbeat Chicagos reporters will be there to report the news you need. For example, she lashed out at Near North Side Ald. Bargaining for the common good is really an attempt by teacher union elites to turn America socialist. Who knows? Davis Gates commended Sharkey for his leadership, especially following Lewis death last year. Chambers social media posts further undermined the already tattered credibility of the CTU, which continues to posture as an opponent of Lightfoots forced reopening even as it blocks collective action by teachers against the murderous policy. Teachers confront a political battle against the Democratic Party, which no less than the Republican Party speaks for Wall Street. We urge you to attend an online meetingon Thursday at 7 p.m. CST to form an Illinois Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee. Yeah, there have been some conflicts for contracts, (but) those contracts have really set a bar and moved new resources into our schools and if it was difficult for those changes to sink through to the people on the other side of the table, I dont apologize for it.. I want her to stop taking slaps from Sharkey as if shes helpless. Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey rallies members and supporters on the first day of the teachers strike on Oct. 17, 2019. And now, it is my time to move on.What set CTU leadership apart in those early years is similar to where we find ourselves today. After serving out the term as acting president starting in October 2014, Sharkey was re-elected president in 2019. And now come the fun death threats DMs," Chambers posted on her now-deleted Twitter account. Its a difficult job, Sharkey said. The Red for Ed movement is becoming redder by the day. She could say that schools were opened, and teachers didnt come to work, so she had no choice but to stop paying them. Lightfoot gave them a rich contract after a strike in 2019. Is it the $100 million in ventilation system upgrades that isn't good enough? Part of that movement isnt to reach positions of executive power and hold onto them for as long as possible.. Reflecting on his time in union leadership, Sharkey said he has no regrets and wouldnt point to anything he would do differently. Im confident in Stacy Davis Gates both as our unions most effective spokesperson, this unions best strategist, and as a capable leader who will inspire this union and the city, Sharkey added. Sharkey said Wednesday that lively debate within the union speaks to its democratic spirit and called pushback after the school shutdown in January a mainstream media backlash.. Heres how they answered 10 important education questions. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts. During the Illinois spring legislative session, Chalkbeat Chicago will watch education issues that relate to funding, early childhood education, students with disabilities, support for school-aged migrants, mental health, and literacy. The other (left) shoe has dropped. Sharkey and a group of teacher union comrades decided to spend their summer vacation in Venezuela. Sharkey was first elected vice president in 2010, when Karen Lewis was elected CTU's president. Heres How to See the Dazzling Duo, Vallas and Johnson Headed to Chicago Mayoral Runoff, Lightfoot Denied Second Term, At Least 2 Tornadoes Briefly Touch Down in Chicago Suburbs, 16-Year-Old Boy Among 3 Killed in Weekend Shootings Across Chicago: Police, Challengers Aim to Block a 2nd Lightfoot Term as Crime, Public Safety Dominate Mayoral and City Council Races. Tense negotiations over COVID-19 safety protocols in early 2021 led to an agreement to reopen CPS schools in waves. That is why educators must take matters into their own hands by joining the national network of Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committees, which are organized independently of the corporatist unions, to protect their lives. CTU President Jesse Sharkey wont seek re-election. They can strike illegally. Lee Sharkey was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1945. He dictates terms. Smooth and cool., Photos: Northwestern loses to Penn State 68-65 in overtime, Nick Niego is back as Brother Rice stuns St. Rita. International Committee of the Fourth International, Sign up for the WSWS Educators Newsletter, attend and help build this public meeting, regardless of their familys health conditions, Chicago schools press ahead with reopening despite wide opposition among teachers and parents, Illinois high school student dies of COVID-19, Opposition mounts in US over deadly rush to restart in-person schooling. And while he thinks the challenges of COVID-19 have prompted CTU leaders to take tough stances, he says the need to stand firm predates the pandemic. Her unions latest tax filing shows that she earned over$500,000 in total compensationin 2016. . A membership vote on a resolution to stop teaching in person until the omicron surge subsided or the district agreed to more stringent protocols was held on a Wednesday evening, with families waiting until 11 p.m. to find out the outcome. General Meetings will be hybrid. All it would take is a state Senate confirmation and Gov. On December 31, Chicago news station WGN published social media posts by Chicago Teachers Union Area Vice President Sarah Chambers enjoying a vacation in Puerto Rico just days before thousands of teachers were forced back into dangerous school buildings under Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoots reopening plan. And needless to say, any problems with Venezuela were blamed on U.S. [Originally Published at the California Policy Center]. The Windy Citys teachers union is on the verge of yet another strike. Her grit. Californian should Our union mourns the passing of President Sharkeys mother, Lee Sharkey, Main Writers & Publishers Alliances scholarship fund, Evaluation of New District Teachers Without Tenure. The incident revealed the essence of the CTU, which falsely claims to represent more than 30,000 educators in the nations third-largest school district. We will also be hosting a national call-in meeting at 1 p.m. EST this Saturday, January 9. To get paid, they have to show up. His time in leadership has been marked by multiple strikes, a contentious relationship with City Hall and a protracted pandemic. Toolkit: Understanding School Bonds Every election cycle, school districts throughout California put school bond measures on the local ballot. Lee Sharkey passed away Oct. 18, after a brief battle with cancer. Subscribe to The TRiiBEs newsletter to retrieve weekly updates on our latest stories, events, and And look at where we are. capture the multifaceted essence of the Black experience in pursuit of truth and liberation. They dont have to show up to work. Even though the news was shared with reporters this morning, the information was shared under an embargo which meant it couldnt be shared until after 5:00 p.m. to coincide with this evenings CTU House of Delegates meeting. Puerto Rico has had 127,000 people contract COVID-19 and 1,200 deaths. When she ran for mayor, I admired many things about her, and still do. In addition to President Sharkey, she is survived by Bersbach, daughter-in-law Julie Fain and grandsons Leo and Caleb. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune). Oh, to be sure, some may fall into that category, but for many others, it is nothing more than a call to advance Bolshevik bushwa. He also noted what he sees as major CTU accomplishments during his time in leadership, like contracts establishing minimum staffing levels and maximum class sizes for schools, as well as a law changing the CPS board from appointed to elected. The two are shown at a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Clergy Breakfast in Chicago in 2015. Yup, the American Federation of Teachers has adopted a How some teacher unionistas spent their summer vacation, The Janus victory and ongoing whine festival. (She was) fearless, willing to lift up the voice of the voiceless, someone who stood for Black Chicago, who stood against racism in our schools, who stood for a vision of public education. On Sunday evening, CPS CEO Janice Jackson admitted in her letter to Chicago aldermen that only 37 percent of parents of pre-K through eighth grade and special education students have stated intention to return for in-person learning. My mother passed away in October of 2020, followed by a brutal school reopening campaign and Karen's death in February of 2021. Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey who led the union through the 2019 teachers strike and last months work stoppage for more COVID-19 protections announced Wednesday that he will not seek another term in the unions spring election. 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Hopkins has a penchant for letting his mouth run before he actually gets the facts, Lightfoot said. While Sharkey and the other CTU members declined to give any predictions as to who might run for president or who theyd want to see take on the role in particular, Sharkey was emphatic in his praise of Gates as a union leader. J.B. Pritzker Announces Compromise on Paid Leave For Vaccinated School Employees, In Close Vote, Rank-and-File Teachers Approve Safety Deal With Chicago Public Schools, As Students Return to Chicago Schools, Tension Remains Between City, Teachers Over Testing, Students Set to Return to Classroom as Chicago Teachers Suspend Labor Action, Venus and Jupiter Will Be Side by Side in Wednesdays Night Sky. Jesse Lee Sofferthe talent behind Chicago P.D.'s former Det. Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said that the mayor's opposition remote learning is a "talking point" during a press conference on Saturday afternoon. The choice between unions becoming more ecumenical or more radical has been made. The announcement came after 2021's tumultuous negotiations with Mayor Lori Lightfoot about school re-openings during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to theTax Foundation, while the top 1 percent of taxpayers earned 19.7 percent of the income in 2016, they paid 37.3 percent of federal income taxes. Rather than presenting solutions for the greater good of students and teachers, union bosses seem to be posturing for a possible strike. As second-in-command to the late president Karen Lewis, Sharkey took the helm of the union during a resurgent period of flexing its political power. Sharkey and a group of teacher union comrades decided tospend their summer vacation in Venezuela. He served as the unions top leader multiple times while Lewis dealt with health struggles, and was elected to the presidency in 2019. This is something Ive been thinking about for a couple of months and would have made the announcement earlier, but for the fact that there was the omicron surge, and we were in this dispute with the board about a safety agreement back in December and January, Sharkey told reporters. From 2010 to 2014, he was the Vice President of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). Jesse Sharkey's decision was reported Wednesday by FOX 32 of Chicago. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say its safe to open public schools, that children are being hurt by not being in class. He did throw his support behind CTU Vice President Stacy Davis Gates, whom he praised as our unions most effective spokesperson, our unions best strategist., CTU President Jesse Sharkey and Vice President Stacy Davis Gates share a hug after announcing on Oct. 30, 2019, that they'd reached a tentative deal with Mayor Lori LIghtfoot to end the two-week teachers strike. CTU president Jesse Sharkey, not running for re-election, refocuses on classroom. How some teacher unionistas spent their summer vacation. At a press conference Tuesday, CTU President Sharkey said nothing about the districts threats to fire teachers for unexcused absences. It has filed impotent legal complaints, called on teachers to sign a petition against unsafe conditions, and urged individual teachers to call in absent, leaving them vulnerable to management retaliation. The TRiiBE asked Gates where she sees the role of youth in the movement to create a better school system for themselves and the educators that work with them. Photo: Chris Strong. He officially succeeded Lewis in 2018 and his Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE) won reelection in 2019. Chambers deserves better. We urge all those who want to join this struggle to attend and help build this public meetingon Thursday at 7 p.m. CST to form an Illinois Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee, and to send us your contact informationtoday. CHICAGO, Oct. 19, 2020The Chicago Teachers Union is saddened to announce the passing of President Jesse Sharkeys mother, Lee, at age 75. Heres what you should know about school bonds before you go to the ballot box. But they dont work online. He is backing his second-in-command, Stacy Davis Gates, in a May union leadership election. Sharkey acknowledged the difficulties of the job, both politically and personally. This past January brought five days of canceled classes in a bruising clash with Lightfoot over coronavirus protocols, which resulted in an agreement members narrowly approved and some criticized as falling short. Mark Konkol, recipient of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting, wrote and produced the Peabody Award-winning series, "Time: The Kalief Browder Story." Acrimonious negotiations over COVID safety and remote learning last school year again brought school to a halt and delayed students return to the classroom, ultimately yielding a reopening agreement that has been held up as a national model. To prevent the reopening of schools, Chicago educators must organize independently of the CTU through the formation of an Illinois Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee, which will unite educators, parents, students and the broader working class, to prepare strike action to close all schools and nonessential workplaces. 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. Instead, be thankful the high school teacher pushed fearmongering propaganda about the reopening of public schools during the coronavirus crisis while visiting a buddy in Puerto Rico for the holidays. I will return to where my journey began: the classroom," Sharkey said. After his CTU tenure officially ends in June, Sharkey said he plans to return to the classroom and continue to be a part of the union as a rank-and-file member. She moved to central Maine in 1970, where she raised her son, Jesse, farmed and ran a small letterpress, and worked as a visiting poet in Maine schools. In all fairness, the rich do have ways to mitigate part of their tax burden that may not be available to the rest of us. Sharkey stressed the standoff had nothing to do with his decision to step down. Jesse Sharkey, the president of the Chicago Teachers Union, will step down at the end of his term this summer after two tumultuous decades of involvement in union leadership that saw the organization become a political powerhouse. Its a difficult job, Im told, and Ive been doing it a long time. At least theyre more upfront about their socialism in Chicago, where teacher union president Jesse Sharkey was aleading memberof the revolutionary International Socialist Organization until the groups dissolution earlier this year. "It was shocking for many - our enemies, especially - to see teachers take the lead. Elections for the CTU president and other elected union leadership are coming up in May. A stress fracture in his shin. Since she was elected, shes gone out of her way to pick fights with certain aldermen and other political straw dogs who couldnt hurt her. But now, CTA is facing Coca Cola, Teach For America, Walmart and banks are the latest targets of Big Labor. Both have deep experience in public education, but differ on many key challenges facing the school district. Thats what we expect to happen.. Commonsense Chicagoans need people like Chambers who didn't realize it was a bad idea to tweet a cheesecake selfie poolside from a COVID-19 hot spot the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says everybody should avoid on the same day she decried the dangers of teaching in socially distant classrooms. Many of them are in unions. Brian Hopkins, who called her out for her failure to stop the downtown looting that led to flight to the suburbs. Feb 02 2022 Feb 02 2022. At least they're more upfront about their socialism in Chicago, where teacher union president Jesse Sharkey was a leading member of the revolutionary International Socialist Organization until the group's dissolution earlier this year. And Mayor Lori Lightfoot? Lee continued to write and publish until her death. New York man planning vacation to Sydney, Australia accidently books flight to . Sharkey announced Wednesday that he will step down when his term expires June 30. Lindblom interim principals contract is postponed again, During sit-in, Jones College Prep students pressure administration to restore trust following Nazi costume incident. Movements have to change as people change, with new leaders and new vision stepping to the fore.I will not be leaving the movement, the labor struggle or this union. She also wants to promote more arts and music programming in schools and challenge the high-stakes, high-pressure application process to selective enrollment and other competitive high school programs. They can keep moving the goal posts. I grew up on a dirt road in rural Maine, raised by a single mother who was an elementary school teacher and editor of a poetry journal. Whatever the phony rhetoric, when it comes to sending teachers back to infected schools, the CTU and other unions are on the other side of the barricade. The right-wing effort to equate teachers with the CTU is as grotesquely false as the claims by Chambers and the rest of the CTU leaders that membership controls the union. In reality, the Chambers incident is only the latest example of the enormous class gulf that exists between the CTU and rank-and-file teachers. I think if our community stays strong and our organizing stays strong, then her legacy will be assured going into the future.. Follow along with our newsletter. The top two candidates to be Chicagos next mayor are headed to a runoff election. And hes the one acting like the mayor of Chicago. Photos: Northwestern loses to Penn State 68-65 in overtime, Nick Niego is back as Brother Rice stuns St. Rita. Yet teachers are getting paid. Shes been on my mind a lot, Sharkey said. Many have placed the blame on Lightfoot. Community organizations in places like Brighton Park, Kenwood-Oakland, Pilsen and Logan Square, many of whom were doing this work long before our union, have grown even stronger.This country was built on the labor and sacrifice of women, and our sisters Stacy, Maria and Christel are ready to fight even harder for classrooms and communities with smart, bold and dependable leadership. February 3, 2022, 5:28 PM. This May, the CTU can start building stronger relationships with community stakeholders and city leaders so we can deliver more for CTU members and better serve Chicagos students.. But, he said, pointing to the 2019 contract and successful lobbying to remove limitations to CTUs bargaining power at the state legislature, it was under Jesse Sharkeys leadership as president that the union fulfilled the goals that had been set.. Im not a lawyer. My oldest son is navigating college life hundreds of miles away.So my fourth term in CTU leadership will be my last. All rights reserved. You may also receive occasional messages from sponsors. After 12 years as one of the primary faces of the Chicago Teachers Union, Jesse Sharkey is returning to the classroom. As a former member and longtime critic of that union, I certainly had no quibble with his selection. The two are shown at a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Clergy Breakfast in Chicago in 2015. It doesnt matter. He called Davis Gates the unions most effective spokesperson and most effective strategist, voicing confidence that their caucus will back her as union president candidate. Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey sits back down after speaking at a Chicago Board of Education meeting in which COVID-19, union matters and various related issues were discussed on Jan. 26, 2022. The right-wing campaign, however, has failed to undermine support for teachers who are struggling, along with parents, with inadequate resources for online learning, the dangers of the pandemic and the indifference of school and city officials. 07/24/2018. My personal start came in 2004, when Chicago Public Schools - under mayoral control and led by CEO Arne Duncan - sought to close dozens of traditional neighborhood schools as part of its Renaissance 2010 plan.My school, Senn High School, was slated to be turned into a military academy. Listen to The Chicago Way podcast with John Kass and Jeff Carlin at www.wgnradio.com/category/wgn-plus/thechicagoway. Sharkey said CTU leadership has set a target date of Jan. 18 for a return to in-class instruction. "It is this discretion that is at the core of our concerns with Chicago's pandemic response," Sharkey wrote. It was tough., Down to Business: Helping children learn to communicate empowers whole family, speech-language pathologist says, Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. I remain confident in my decision to move on because our union is strong, with not only capable leadership and staff, but more than 25,000 members and a deep bench of activists stretching from Austin to the lake, and from Howard Street to the 10th Ward.We have faced budget cuts, pension insecurity, a pandemic and a revolving door of CPS CEOs, but throughout it all, we gained invaluable experience and changed the narrative around public education in Chicago. After 12 years as one of the primary faces of the Chicago Teachers Union, Jesse Sharkey is returning to the classroom. Because my poem concerns the effects of dementia on my marriage, the award has a strong personal significance for me, she said. As part of the new deal, the district agreed to provide students and staff members KN95 masks; abide by metrics that would temporarily transition a school to remote learning; and increase incentives for substitute teachers. J.B Pritzkers Childrens Behavioral Transformation Initiative makes 12 recommendations for how the state can support families and children in need of mental health services. This is the same modus operandi used by teacher unions in New York City, Washington D.C. and other cities to reopen dangerous schools. And they will stress that is the fault of the U.S., of course. 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). I want her to lead, demand those children get back into school. Sharkey said he never planned to serve more than a decade in union leadership. Hes already the boss. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune) Shouldn't Chicago. Sharkey said it will be up to CORE to determine its leadership slate for the May election. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune). That was not a time that I needed to be distracting people in the city or the membership., Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey rallies members and supporters on the first day of the teachers strike on Oct. 17, 2019. If you value Chalkbeat, consider making a donation. Heres how they answered a Chalkbeat questionnaire. "Jesse Sharkey's announcement is an acknowledgment that now is the time to bring new leadership to our union. But he says thats due to the CTUs highly democratic nature. To fight for this, we urge teachers to get more information and join the Socialist Equality Party. By Larry Sand. At a time when most U.S. citizens havebenefited from the Trump tax cuts, the American Federation of Teachers joined up with a motley assemblage of leftwing organizations over the summer on what was billed as the Tax the Rich Bus Tour. The road show, which lasted 35 days and ended just last week, was replete with the usual tropes including demands that the rich and corporations pay their fair share and other socialist-inspired class warfare twaddle. Schools were being wracked by closures, by corporate de-form education reform that made students and our school communities into targets and objects of derision, and we felt like we needed to form a unified coalition between parents, students, and educators and take back some of that power, Sharkey said. Ald. Teacher and poet raised her son to be compassionate and committed to the greater good. Nick Blumberg | February 8, 2022 8:29 pm. Infection rates are closer to 20 percent in working class neighborhoods where low-wage workers are forced to work, rely on mass transit and live in large, multigenerational households. In Chicago, district officials have ordered all pre-K through eighth grade teachers without approved medical exceptions back into buildings this month, regardless of their familys health conditions, and threatened those who do not return with dismissal. Robert Bruno, an expert in labor relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a close observer of the Chicago Teachers Union, said Karen Lewis conceived the unions more expansive, aggressive stance at the bargaining table and beyond. Sharkey says their decision to run was based on what they saw as the dire need to change public education. "We are part of a movement, and as an educator at heart, I view myself as a leader in that movement," Sharkey said. Our union will remain a force, and our dogged defense of public schools and the willingness to speak truth to power are not going anywhere.But I am. I hope Letter to Al invites others into a world too little explored in contemporary literature.. They can ignore the data. Delegates will vote whether to have both a delegates training and a House of Delegates meeting in March or just one or the other. All of what were trying to do as a union is to impact their lives positively. The CTU is an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers and the Illinois Federation of Teachers and is the third-largest teachers local in the United States. Asked to comment on that possibility, Sharkey chuckled and said, I am going to have more time, stressing that for now he is looking forward to a return to the classroom but plans to remain active in advocacy. Those were pretty big aspirations, I guess, but I never imagined life would unfold the way it did. 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