Interestingly, there is no specific plan to improve on the districts76.6percentgraduation rate or address the fact thatless than half of the 2019 Los Angeles Unified School District graduating class will be eligible to attend one of the states public universities. But I am. 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.. I think its time for me to do something different, Sharkey explained. The same guy whod put out a ridiculous interpretive dance video of union teachers dancing sad modern dance solo pieces to explain how they feel about things. Over the last decade it has played a central role in the restructuring of public education in Chicago and assisting the Democratic Party in suppressing opposition to school closures and the expansion of for-profit charter schools, along with the explosion of social inequality and police killings. ", a COVID-19 hot spot the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says everybody should avoid, CTU Loses Credibility Blaming Push For Reopening School On Racism, Mom's Cookie Recipe Brings Cheer To Sad Coronavirus Christmas, Reflections On 155 Episodes Of Pritzker Daily Pandemic Spin Show, Anjanette Young Is My Chicagoan Of Year Amid Turmoil Of 2020, Too Many Secrets Allow Chicago's Misdeeds To Keep Festering. Gates listed fine arts education funding, sports funding, and an end to using standardized testing as the single defining metric for students educational progress as some of her primary goals for the union moving forward. They can strike illegally. I will return to where my journey began: the classroom," Sharkey said. 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. A new report from Gov. Licking its wounds after missing an opportunity to gouge the citys taxpayers viaMeasure EEin June, the union is back with The New Deal for Public Schools. Inspired by New York socialist Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezs Green New Deal, the UTLA plan is nothing more than a wealth-transfer gimmick which aims to close corporate tax loopholes, provide more green space on campuses, fight the corporate charter industrys influence in politics, and increase investments in adult education, early education, multilingual education, and special education. In other words, tax the rich, spend tons more money, establish more programs and eliminate charter schools. 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. Without her, more-reasonable people might've been duped into believing CTU's planned theatrics Monday when a handful of teachers taught online students in freezing temperatures rather than going inside empty classrooms because doing so made them "afraid for our lives. I am also mad at him because were already in an election cycle and I dont want this to be politicized because Jesse doesnt deserve that, she added. CHICAGO Please stop making threats against Chicago Teachers Union executive board member Sarah Chambers. February 3, 2022, 5:28 PM. ", There might not be a reason to remind folks that we're dealing with a teachers union led by a white guy that used its Twitter feed to declare a push to reopen schools by Mayor Lori Lightfoot and public schools chief Janice Jackson, both Black women, was "rooted in sexism, racism and misogyny. Describing himself as more of a pragmatic, traditional trade unionist, he once said he worried about following on the heels of the charismatic Lewis. At times, his blunt approach could rankle City Hall, such as when he called Mayor Lori Lightfoot relentlessly stupid and relentlessly stubborn during a recent standoff over COVID safety protocols after winter break. It was their way or the highway. "It was shocking for many - our enemies, especially - to see teachers take the lead. Watch David Norths remarks commemorating 25 years of the World Socialist Web Site and donate today. 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. and Terms of Service apply. 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. 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. The installation of Chambers, former ISO leader and now-CTU President Jesse Sharkey, and other middle class pseudo-left elements has done nothing to change the anti-working class character of the CTU. Privacy Policy. In reality, she is a card-carrying member of the dreaded 1 percent class. I suppose you could say that theres been remote learning in its place, but on the South and West sides where kids are being left behind, many students are not engaged online, as Jackson has acknowledged. two tumultuous decades of involvement in union leadership, a recent standoff over COVID safety protocols, a two-week strike during 2019 contract talks. Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey says he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is resting at home with mild symptoms. 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. He said he has been mulling the decision to not seek reelection for several months, noting that an all-encompassing role has taken a toll, and becoming entrenched in the top position would go against the unions spirit. But they dont work online. (Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune), Jesse Sharkey was mentored by and served as vice president under the late former CTU President Karen Lewis. and European sanctions.. In the run-up to the Janus decision . Shouldnt Chicago just get it over with now and make Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey the mayor? It doesnt matter. From 2010 to 2014, he was the Vice President of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). For more information please visit the CTU website at. And they need space and nurturing and affirmation, Gates said. The Windy Citys teachers union is on the verge of yet another strike. 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. Brian Hopkins, who called her out for her failure to stop the downtown looting that led to flight to the suburbs. Sharkey served as vice president of the union under Karen Lewis from 2010 to 2014 before she stepped down due to illness. Please talk to any and every teacher you know about this, and remind them that as a result of theJanusruling, they no longer have to fund a bunch of socialist activists masquerading as educators. She could say that schools were opened, and teachers didnt come to work, so she had no choice but to stop paying them. After 12 years as one of the primary faces of the Chicago Teachers Union, Jesse Sharkey is returning to the classroom. It was time for me to do something different, Sharkey said. He then said the CTU made three additional offers to the city on a return-to-work plan to sell to teachers, including a delayed start of classes until teachers receive a first dose of the vaccine, with an extension of the school year into the summer; the return of only those teachers and students who volunteer to do in-person learning; or the resumption of in-person learning with mass testing of all teachers and students, all representing unacceptable public health risks. Rahm would arrive the next year. 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. Who talks like that? 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. Because my poem concerns the effects of dementia on my marriage, the award has a strong personal significance for me, she said. J.B. Pritzker's signature to give CTU the power to demand negotiations and ultimately call a strike over issues such as shorter school days, staffing and class-size requirements that state law leaves up to the school system's discretion. Then Lightfoot trounced Preckwinkle in every ward and embarrassed Sharkey. We were a group of educators whose schools were being closed, meeting at protests, public hearings and the Chicago Board of Education in defense of our classrooms and colleagues. Jesse Sharkey won't be seeking re-election for a fifth term as president of the Chicago Teachers Union, he said Wednesday. And CTU President Jesse Sharkey crossed the line. Toolkit: Understanding School Bonds Every election cycle, school districts throughout California put school bond measures on the local ballot. Listen to The Chicago Way podcast with John Kass and Jeff Carlin at www.wgnradio.com/category/wgn-plus/thechicagoway. 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. She credited Lewis and Sharkey with presiding over a resurgence in morale and purpose: They gave us our dignity back.. Our union mourns the passing of President Sharkeys mother, Lee Sharkey, Main Writers & Publishers Alliances scholarship fund, Evaluation of New District Teachers Without Tenure. If you value Chalkbeat, consider making a donation. And look at where we are. 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. He is backing his second-in-command, Stacy Davis Gates, in a May union leadership election. He served as the unions top leader multiple times while Lewis dealt with health struggles, and was elected to the presidency in 2019. 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. November 18, 2014, 2:48 pm. Delegates will vote whether to have both a delegates training and a House of Delegates meeting in March or just one or the other. Many have placed the blame on Lightfoot. When she ran for mayor, I admired many things about her, and still do. Reflecting on his time in union leadership, Sharkey said he has no regrets and wouldnt point to anything he would do differently. Sharkeys Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators will have the final say on whether Davis Gates will lead its slate in the upcoming election, union officials said. Both have deep experience in public education, but differ on many key challenges facing the school district. So I began organizing, and found a group of like-minded and strong-willed teachers doing the same. Follow along with our newsletter. 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. #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left;width:100%;font-weight:normal;}, Beyond Chicago from the Air with Geoffrey Baer, The Great Chicago Fire: A Chicago Stories Special, Stacy Davis Gates Wins Election to Become Next CTU President, Jesse Sharkey, President of Chicago Teachers Union, Not Running For Reelection, Gov. The choice between unions becoming more ecumenical or more radical has been made. CHICAGO, Oct. 19, 2020The Chicago Teachers Union is saddened to announce the passing of President Jesse Sharkey's mother, Lee, at age 75. We are part of a movement, and as an educator at heart, I view myself as a leader in that movement. Lightfoot is a lawyer. 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. March 17, 2021 / 5:12 PM / CBS Chicago CHICAGO (CBS) -- Time. On Sunday, Chicago resident Arnold Herrera, a 19-year-old with no prior health problems, died of the disease. While feigning opposition to Lightfoots plans, the CTU has opposed any strike action, leaving teachers to fight on their own. When talking recently about trying to convince the union to go back to work, Lightfoot seemed bone-tired, frazzled, weakened. 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. Sharkey, 52, became acting president in 2014 while Lewis battled brain cancer. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune). He served as the union's top leader multiple times while Lewis dealt with health . 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. Photo courtesy of Sharkey [Facebook]. We expect students and staff to be in school on Monday, she said. What was the point of the CTU dance video? 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. 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. 07/24/2018. Subscribe to The TRiiBEs newsletter to retrieve weekly updates on our latest stories, events, and Im sure these teachers will come back to school in two weeks and regale their students about the glories of Venezuelan socialism where90 percent of the people live in poverty,the inflation rate is an astonishing 282,973andcivil rights have been abolished. We urge you to attend an online meetingon Thursday at 7 p.m. CST to form an Illinois Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee. In an effort at damage control, Chambers, who at first defended her actions, issued a statement of contrition and announced she would step back from the CTU executive board, at least temporarily. The hysterical reaction to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Janus v. AFSCME case, which frees public employees in 22 states from having to pay any money to a union as a condition of employment, has Chicken Little nodding in solidarity. The Maine native and father of two taught social studies at Senn High School and Chicago Vocational Career Academy before being elected vice president of the union in 2010 alongside President Karen Lewis. Chalkbeat Chicagos reporters will be there to report the news you need. . 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. Jesse Sharkey's decision was reported Wednesday by FOX 32 of Chicago. But Weingarten talks one way and lives another. Hopkins has a penchant for letting his mouth run before he actually gets the facts, Lightfoot said. to flourish. "Movements have to change as people change, with new leaders and new vision stepping to the fore.". The announcement came during a Zoom press conference on Wednesday morning where Sharkey, Vice President Stacy Davis Gates and a select few CTU officers shared their thoughts on Sharkeys time as president with a few members of the media. She is the author ofWalking Backwards(Tupelo, 2016),Calendars of Fire(Tupelo, 2013), and five earlier books of poems, as well as a number of chapbooks. "We are part of a movement, and as an educator at heart, I view myself as a leader in that movement," Sharkey said. Since then, the unions engaged in multiple actions, including as recently as this winter during a debate over COVID-19 safety protocols. A broken ankle. One of those teachers was Karen Lewis, a bright and brilliant voice who would soon become known to our union, and our world, as a beloved and fearless union leader.At the time, I had no dreams of being a labor leader for the next decade. It was Sharkey and the CTU who endorsed Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle for mayor and spent almost $300,000 to get her elected. General Meetings will be hybrid. I dont think theres any reason for me to say anything further.. All Rights Reserved. He did note the union failed in its push to avert Mayor Rahm Emanuels 2013 closures of 50 schools on the South and West sides that disproportionately affected Black students and educators. Current hero: John Brown Ron Huberman was CPS CEO. The Red for Ed movement is becoming redder by the day. Her grit. All rights reserved. Sharkey and a group of teacher union comrades decided to spend their summer vacation in Venezuela. For her out-of-touch tweet, Chambers gained unwanted viral attention after a Chicago news junkie retweeted Chambers' post with a legitimate question: "Are CTU Field rep director Sara Echevarria and CTU executive board member Sarah Chambers violating Chicago travel order while screaming CPS is trying to kill us???". 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. 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. In 2017, Lee won Irelands prestigious Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize for her poem, Letter to Al, which was a poignant account of her experience with her second husband, Al Bersbach, living with dementia. With raises. During his tenure, clashes with Lightfoot led to three school shutdowns in the past three years, starting with a two-week strike during 2019 contract talks when the union pressed for an ambitious slate of proposals, including smaller class sizes, that went well beyond salary and benefits issues. 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. 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. Lee later taught at the University of Maine at Farmington, founded the Women Studies Program there, and served as senior editor of theBeloit Poetry Journal, one of the countrys oldest and most respected poetry magazines. All it would take is a state Senate confirmation and Gov. Puerto Rico has had 127,000 people contract COVID-19 and 1,200 deaths. Elections for the CTU president and other elected union leadership are coming up in May. 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. We had a Board of Education that had really developed a unilateral way of dealing with teachers and parents a series of mayors, Daley, Rahm, Lightfoot, who werent interested in bargaining or negotiating with us at all. If she does not, she will find us to be an implacable foe.. 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. The Heartland Institute offers free email subscriptions to all of its newsletters and monthly public policy newspapers. All of what were trying to do as a union is to impact their lives positively. What the CTU boss doesn't mention in his letter to senators is those meetings with school officials about reopening plans have devolved into union demands for a pledge to lobby for "defunding police" and "rent abatement," according to people familiar with the closed-door discussions. CTU President Jesse Sharkey wont seek re-election. (Teresa Crawford/ AP) CHICAGO. 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. Still, he expressed confidence about the CTU's future without his leadership. She added, In order to show my contrition, and not to be a distraction, I will deactivate all of my social media accounts and step back from the Chicago Teachers Union executive board.. Sharkey said CTU leadership has set a target date of Jan. 18 for a return to in-class instruction. The bill has languished in the Senate since 2019, a source told me, at the request of former Mayor Rahm Emanuel. And now come the fun death threats DMs," Chambers posted on her now-deleted Twitter account. Visit the CPS calendar page for other dates and to download a PDF calendar. In the eyes of many around our city, and our country, we succeeded.I have been extremely fortunate to work alongside brilliant minds in Karen, Vice President Stacy Davis Gates, Financial Secretary Maria Moreno, Recording Secretary Christel Williams-Hayes, CTU Chief of Staff Jennifer Johnson, Grievance Director Zeidre Foster, Organizing Director Rebecca Martinez and a host of rank-and-file leaders. More than half of the 2,100 teachers and 40 percent of the support staff instructed to return to work Monday did not return, according to district officials. 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. 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 a lengthy statement, Sharkey thanked . You cant always get to the school board meeting. And they get paid anyway. whats happening in Black Chicago. Receive news updates and information on the fight against the unsafe reopening of schools. The next time you hear about the Red for Ed movement, please keep in mind that all too often this is not just a group of teachers trying to advance their profession. We will have a nurse and a social worker in every school by 2024. He has been one of the most dynamic, dependable and stable leaders that this city has ever had.. New York man planning vacation to Sydney, Australia accidently books flight to . CTU boss Jesse Sharkey is quietly leveraging the coronavirus crisis to lobby state senators to pass a bill that would improve the union's future bargaining power. The other (left) shoe has dropped. Union leadership expressed dissatisfaction with Mayor Lori Lightfoot's earlier refusal to add ten paid teaching days . I understand that was insensitive and wrong of me to go on this trip for winter break and for me to share photos of it at a time when thousands of my union sisters and brothersand the families we serveare refraining from travel or making only essential plans outside of the home. ", MORE ON PATCH: CTU Loses Credibility Blaming Push For Reopening School On Racism, While the fearmongering propaganda and Twitter hypocrisy are important to note, they shouldn't distract from the fact that CTU bosses never say exactly why the school system's detailed safety protocols remain wholly unacceptable for a slow rollout for socially distant in-person learning. The actor, 38, sat down with Variety reporters for a . And when we lost Karen, he held our hands, and he reassured us that we were still going to get where we needed to get. Tense negotiations over COVID-19 safety protocols in early 2021 led to an agreement to reopen CPS schools in waves. Sharkey said he will continue to be a member of the CTU, which he joined in 1998. The TRiiBE is a digital media platform that is reshaping the narrative of Black Chicago and giving ownership Her unions latest tax filing shows that she earned over$500,000 in total compensationin 2016. The challengers said Sharkey has been too quick to resort to labor actions that have disrupted the district. Doing it without their voice and agency is a bad move.. In his statement, Sharkey called efforts to reopen schools a "brutal school reopening campaign" that followed his mother's October 2020 death. After handing trillions to the major corporations, both parties plan to gut public education and other vital services. "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. I think if our community stays strong and our organizing stays strong, then her legacy will be assured going into the future.. Before Senate President Don Harmon decides whether to call for a vote on a bill to boost CTU's bargaining power before the legislative session expires Jan. 13, I hope he remembers what we've learned from Sarah Chambers' poolside tweets from Puerto Rico. To make matters worse, public health experts believe the new, more virulent strain of the virus, which spreads particularly fast among young people, is already in Chicago, sparking the latest surge in cases. By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Notice and European users agree to the data transfer policy. Jesse Lee Sofferthe talent behind Chicago P.D.'s former Det. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune). 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. Christel is our soul, and Maria is our heart. Find the Zoom link and other relevant information on the AFT Black Caucus, Chicago Chapter website, specifically the[]. Lee Sharkey passed away Oct. 18, after a brief battle with cancer. 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