Whenever I see our sister, you know who I see? Stamps called out. By her second semester of teaching, Gates started looking for ways to make inroads with her students that had little to do with curriculum. Current. But the union's vice president, Stacy Davis Gates, said teachers are dealing with "severe staffing shortages" and a lack of mitigation measures against Covid-19. Photo: Colin Boyle/Associated Press The impact of historical, generational disinvestment on the South Side and West Side of the city is difficult for people who are experiencing it to challenge, because its every day and it covers all facets of their existence. [25] Upon the sale of the tower, the CTUF refocused its mission towards teacher advocacy and grantmaking to underserved communities. They would have you to believe that you cant read Beloved in a classroom, she continued. An accredited provider of Illinois Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE), Chicago-Kent's Continuing Legal and Professional Education (CLE) programs offer participants an affordable opportunity to network with other practitioners, discuss current issues and trends, and problem solve with those that write, teach, and practice in the area. At the national level, Christel has worked on the PSRP Professional Problems Committee for the American Federation of Teachers and was a member of its Summer Organizing Institute in Houston, Texas. But that doesnt faze Gates. In response, the Chicago Public Schools said that teachers were only required to make basic accommodations rather than entirely new plans. Accessed June 01, 2020. When my members hear how much I love them, they hear Laura., Shes loath to squander the opportunities they provided her. The U.S. Department of Education said that CTUs lawsuit was nothing more than political posturing for a headline. [21], In May 2020, the Chicago Teachers Union was sued by a Chicago teacher who was being forced to pay CTU dues despite crossing the picket line during the 2019 strike and withdrawing from CTU membership. We see our schools closed and defunded. Im not the caricature in the letters to the editor. But caricatures are easier to digestand dismissthan the deficits and disinvestments plaguing public schools. Sharkey has been with the CTU since 1998, previously serving as the unions vice president. Stacy Davis Gates, vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union, speaks in Chicago, Dec. 9, 2018. This year began with the shooting death of 8-year-old Melissa Ortega, a student at Emiliano Zapata Academy in Little Village; the murder of Amanda Alvarez-Calo, a pre-K teacher at Matthew Gallistel Language Academy in East Side; and a shooting outside Alessandro Volta Elementary School in Albany Park that sent it into lockdown. She remembers Arne Duncan, CPSs CEO at the time, delivering the news at her building. CTU is a local union of the American Federation of Teachers, the countrys second-largest national teachers union. For nearly 20 years before becoming president of the teachers union, she was a high school chemistry teacher. Accessed June 02, 2020. 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. 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. April 13, 2020, 10:37 pm. Dont be discouraged in the moment of great need. They remain on strike. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. We see the surveillance and pain in our neighborhoods. Campbell, Alexia Fernndez, The 11-day teachers strike in Chicago paid off, Vox, November 01, 2019. Bellware, Kim, Chicago teachers say they will go on strike. Stacy Davis Gates EDITOR'S NOTE, OCTOBER 30, 2019: The profile below was first published on August 2, 2019. Masterson, Matt, CTU Members Approve Merger With Charter School Teachers Union, WTTW, January 30, 2018. The rhetoric on education reform and pension reform in Chicagois upside down. As a rank-and-file member, she was active in the charter outreach committee, clinicians steering committee and the CTU Latino Caucus policy committee. 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. [42], In its Form 990 disclosure for July 2017 to June 2018, the Chicago Teachers Union had total revenue of $28 million and total expenses of $30 million, resulting in a net loss of approximately $2 million. 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. Mitch Smith and Monica Davey, Chicago Teachers Strike, Longest in Decades, Ends, New York Times, October 31, 2019. If someone mistreats her, she notices. The air crackled with applause. She has raised millions of dollars to elect classroom teachers to all levels of local government and to challenge school privatizers and union-busters. Whos the president of the Chicago Teachers Union? While a victory for the teachers' union, the concessions came at a significant cost - estimated at about $500 million - to Chicago's already-shaky financial condition. In what era has it ever been ethical, moral or vogue to close schools in poor, under-resourced blackcommunities and fire experienced, dedicated school personnel,and then try to justify those decisions by claiming budgetshortfalls on unwieldy retiree pay..Chicagos Mayor RahmEmanuel has abdicated his responsibility as chief executive of thecity and made it a practice to scapegoat his wrong-headedpolicies on the most vulnerable populations in the city. Before Sharkeys announcement, Gatess name also had been brought up as a possible contender. Stacy Gates Davis L in 2016 was employed in Chicago Teachers Union and had annual salary of $112,422 according to public records. That was the moment I was radicalized.. Copyright 2023 InfluenceWatch. Please settle up and move on., Says Gates: Im disappointed that in 2022 we still believe that Black people are a monolith and one-dimensional. If the labor movements instinct has been to reduce demands in order to sound reasonable, the new CTU took the opposite approach, McAlevey wrote. Salary Breakdown (2019) 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. It really makes you understand how the city works and who the city works for and who the city doesnt, says Dave Stieber, a social studies and poetry teacher at Kenwood Academy High School and a vocal CTU supporter on social media. The CTU is no small thing. 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. 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 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. [26], In 2018, despite the infusion of $48 million from the sale of the building just a few years prior, the CTUF cut back, reducing its grants from $1.9 million to 50 grantees in 2017 to $1 million to 37 grantees in 2018. She imagined her students voices landing on the ears of the decision makers the way Charlie Browns teachers words sounded to the Peanuts classroom. DJN. I remember we were never able to take a book home because they didnt have a book for every student, says Latoyia Kimbrough, a 2005 graduate who now works as in-house legal counsel for CTU. He hasnt publicly ruled it out, but he says his current plan is to return to the classroom. Accessed June 01, 2020. All Rights Reserved. Accessed June 02, 2020. One of the first things she would say to you was What dont I know? Jackson Potter is the Vice President of the Chicago Teachers Union. [34], Between October 2018 and October 2019, the CTU donated $1.7 million to political campaigns and related political action committees. And it also is paralyzing, because youre trying to make sense out of nonsense.. Chicago Tribune, August 20, 2019. The gifted students were invited on a field trip to Philadelphia to see the Liberty Bell and other historic landmarks. The problems are complex. Ms. Gates, outstanding articulation of concise and pointed perspectives given on WCPT 820 AM on 10/18. 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. Expenses: $32,111,159 . So I want you to stay encouraged, Chicago Teachers Union. [36], CTU has been an active opponent of education reforms or changes that could reduce the unions power within the education system. And she's not about to let anyone. However, in 2012, after 9 months of contentious negotiations between CTU, the Chicago School Board, and then-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D), who had been actively closing or privatizing failing schools, the CTU went on strike again. [18], In addition to member-oriented benefits, the CTU also expanded its list of demands during the 2019 teacher strike to include a broader political goal: access to affordable housing. The hallways of Englewood High were lined with photos of notable alums: Harold Ickes, secretary of the interior under Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman; Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., the first African American to be selected as an astronaut; Harold Bradley Sr., who was one of just 13 African American players in the National Football League before World War II; Pulitzer Prizewinning poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Theyre embedded in our American history. After 12 years as one of the primary faces of the Chicago Teachers Union, Jesse Sharkey is returning to the classroom. Thank you so much for everything you do. Including the mayor. While the purpose of the Foundation was to support retired and disabled teachers, very few teachers ever lived at Fewkes Tower, and only seven of the 224 apartments in Fewkes Tower were occupied by retired CPS teachers when the building was sold by CTUF in 2014. The public face of Chicagos teachers, who stand squarely at the center of the countrys labor movement and culture wars, Gates, 45, is an unflinching critic of Mayor Lori Lightfoot and a fierce opponent of attempts to privatize public education. Davis Gates is currently on leave from the classroom, where she taught high school social studies for over a decade at Englewood and Clemente High Schools and Mason Community Links High School. So not only does she really have a lot of head for strategy and thinking about politics, but she also tracks a tremendous amount of things, in both a good and a bad way. Thats one reason negotiations have been fractious with the mayors team. And for those who are not experiencing that in the same way, it is difficult to even grasp why this is happening., Gates wanted to be Perry Mason when she grew up. American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO. She attended Saint Marys College, the University of Notre Dame and Concordia University. Stacy Davis Gates has served as the Political and Legislative Director for the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) for the past six years. [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. Blair Paddock | May 24, 2022 8:47 pm. For more than 75 years the Chicago Teachers Union has fought for the schools Chicagos students deserve. 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. A native of Chicagos West Side, Christel was raised by a single mother who retired as a school clerk. I need you to stay in love with the children in this school district. She walked off the stage and headed upstairs to join the Nicholson STEM Academy teachers meeting. Website by Governmental Strategic Solutions, LLC. Ms. Davis Gates lives on the South Side of Chicago with her husband and three children. Your visits to the show are always one of my favorite features but today (Ben Jarovsky 06/27/18), you burned down the house. That working parents are needlessly burdened by late-night union votes and canceled classes. Year: 2016: Full Name: They were a constant in a time when things were just all over the place. Leone, Hannah, Chicago teacher who crossed the picket line during the strike is now suing the teachers union over dues payments, Chicago Tribune, May 07, 2020. Ms. 2020 Chicago magazine / A Chicago Tribune Media Group website. Press Inquires: 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. It felt demoralizing. In addition to leading the political and legislative agendas for the CTU, Stacy is a regular contributor to radio shows and print publications. But she would later learn that it wasnt always so level upstream. When the CTU had the city nailed to the wall during last years 11-day-long strike, the unions No. You are confronted with unparalleled grief., Stacys brilliant, Sharkey says. However, due to the Loeb Rule, the Chicago Board of Education fired dozens of participating teachers. It was like a family. Then You Havent Been Paying Attention. chicagotribune.com. The UIC administration is offering raises of 17% over four years, averaging 4.25% per year, the union said. I have enormous respect for the load Lightfoot and Gates carry, Sive wrote, but were tired, girlfriends. It turned me upside down., In 2005, in Gatess second year teaching at Englewood High, CPS announced the school would close. (When asked about it on the Crains Chicago Business podcast A.D. Q&A in January, Gates said that the notion of her running was something she first heard from Lightfoots lips and was not a priority for her. By the time I got to meet these kids, something would have already happened. So she set her sights upstream: Grab them before theyre thrown into the water, to paraphrase Desmond Tutu, rather than standing downstream to keep pulling them out. Karen Lewis, a longtime chemistry teacher, was elected to lead the newly reform-minded CTU in 2010. This effort resulted in both support and opposition. [28], The Chicago Teachers Union also operates the CTU PAC, a campaign committee that supports candidates who fight against school reform. They are demanding affordable housing for students, Washington Post, October 16, 2019. Sharkey taught at Chicago Vocational Career Academy (CVCA). I need to vote for someone like you. 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. We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us. I can take off my earrings and get the Vaseline.), Still, the nationally televised conflict early in Lightfoots termwith Democratic heavy hitters siding with the teachersset the stage for the successive years of highly tempestuous dealings. Or, Omicrons peaking. 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