Parents & Teachers
Together for Our Kids
Thank you for your support in our fight for quality public education and a fair contract. Parents, students, teachers, PSRPs, and clinicians joined together to demand what our students need and deserve.
Chicago Teachers Union members’ determination and your support during the strike forced the Board of Education to agree to:
- Hire over 600 additional teachers in Art, Music, Phys Ed and other subjects
- Maintain limits on class size, increase funding for smaller classes
- Add a parent voice on class size committees
- Make textbooks available on the first day of school
- Increase racial diversity in hiring at CPS
- Lessen the focus on standardized testing – keep the focus on teaching instead of tests
- Provide more attention from school Social Workers and Nurses
- Increase funding for Special Ed teachers, social workers, psychologists, classroom assistants and counselors in schools with high caseloads.
The strike is not the end of the fight for the schools Chicago’s students deserve. We need a better school day, not just a longer one. We will keep working together to stop the Mayor’s plan to close 100 schools. The Board of Ed will continue starving schools in low income neighborhoods, denying them air conditioning, libraries, playground facilities and resources unless we fight back. We need your help to continue the fight for Educational Justice in Chicago.
We are in this together – for the schools Chicago students deserve.
For more information, please visit ctunet.com/parents.
No one cares more about the success of Chicago's children than parents and educators. We both spend every day thinking about how to best support students’ growth and what is needed in school to promote that.
The Chicago Teachers Union is the voice of 30,000 educators: current and retired teachers, clinicians (school nurses, social workers, psychologists, etc.), and Paraprofessional and School Related Personnel (school clerks in the office, teacher assistants, hearing and vision testers, and more).
We are a democratic union. Staff at each school elect delegates who meet every month (some 800 people!) to guide the work of the Union’s full-time Officers and staff.
The Chicago Teachers Union has brought together the expertise of our members, who study the latest research on how to support our students’ growth and learning. We have a lot to tell parents and community members about good schools!
Download The Schools Chicago’s Students Deserve—CTU’s groundbreaking report on what our children need to nurture and prepare them for the world into which they’ll graduate. There, you will find both a one-page summary and a 50-page report detailing what educators say our students need.
Download a message from educators to parents about CTU’s current negotiations with the Chicago Board of Education for our next contract. This brief, half-page flyer can be reproduced in English and in Spanish to share with other parents and neighbors.
Click here for a collection of materials about unions to help your child understand the work our union does.
Sign up to join CTU’s Parent Action Team.
You will be part of the network that connects you to all of CTU’s programs and initiatives. You will receive regular e-mails about events and priorities affecting our schools and the educators who make them work.
We want to keep you informed about pending legislation in Springfield on which parents and educators need to act. For purposes of identifying your congressional district, we ask that you provide your home address below.