The Chicago Teachers Union and the Movement for Education and Social Justice in Chicago

• In Event: 72.028 - The Landscape of Education Policy and Politics in Chicago: Neoliberalism, Race, Resistance, and Justice

Abstract

A leader of the Chicago Teachers Union outlines the transformation of the CTU into a social movement union allied with parents, students, and community members and its role in the education justice movement in Chicago. The commentary discusses Chicago Public Schools undemocratic governance, its top down, racist “apartheid education” policies and agenda to dismantle public education and effects on teachers, teaching, students, and communities. The presenter discusses the CTU’s educational program (Chicago Teachers Union, 2012) and its relationship to campaigns for affordable housing, living wages, progressive tax policy, and democracy in Chicago.
Note: this is a commentary

Author

• Jesse Sharkey, Chicago Teachers Union