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Davis-Gates will be moving up from her position as vice president when . After her twelve-year career as a classroom educator, Stacy married her political ambitions with her passion for educational advocacy and joined the revitalized Chicago Teachers Union. Occupation: Vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union. Masterson, Matt, CTU Members Approve Merger With Charter School Teachers Union, WTTW, January 30, 2018. Ms. Davis Gates is currently on leave from the classroom, where she taught high school social studies for over a decade at Englewood, Clemente, and Mason Community Links High Schools. And it also is paralyzing, because youre trying to make sense out of nonsense.. It felt like the humanity was removed from us. By the time teachers and students returned to classrooms in November 2019four months before COVID-19 would force schools to close againthe union had successfully bargained for a social worker, nurse, and librarian in every school, $35 million in spending to reduce overcrowded classrooms, a 16 percent pay raise for teachers over five years, and a 40 percent pay raise for teaching assistants, clerks, and other historically underpaid support staff members. [33], CTU and CTU PAC paid $316,000 to United Working Families, a labor-union-aligned political organization funded by CTU and SEIU Healthcare Illinois/Indiana, to conduct organizing and advocacy in line with the policies and candidates supported by the Chicago Teachers Union. They would have you to believe that you cant read Beloved in a classroom, she continued. Year: 2016: Full Name: I was hurt. Stacy Davis Gates Won't Back Down The Chicago Teachers Union's heir apparent sees herself as a righteous champion of not just educators but of students. She was actually in sixth grade, Gates later clarifies. 1973: Two strikes, of 12 and 11 days, yield improved salary, benefits, preparation time, supplies, and class sizes. This salary is 15 percent lower than average and 20 percent lower than median salary in Chicago Teachers Union. From milquetoast to militant is how Jane F. McAlevey described the unions evolution in her 2016 book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age. She shut that down pretty quickly., Kimbrough remembers Gates and Potter, Englewood Highs debate coach at the time, playing in those basketball games. And also really scared. She has raised millions of dollars to elect classroom teachers to all levels of local government, and challenge school privatizers and union busters. She graduated from John Marshall High School and proudly serves on the schools alumni committee. Prior to that, she was the CTUs political and legislative director. We see the surveillance and pain in our neighborhoods. It felt familiar, she says, especially because I was teaching African American history that year. A few minutes past 6 p.m., with the board meeting streaming on her iPhone, Gates walked through the refurbished warehouse in West Town that serves as the unions headquarters and into the Jacqueline B. Vaughn Hall, named for first African American woman to lead the CTU. [36], CTU has been an active opponent of education reforms or changes that could reduce the unions power within the education system. What does it mean when two transistors are matched? Really tired. Chicago Teachers Union 1901 W. Carroll Ave. Chicago, IL 60612. It was all I could do to refrain from leaping up from my desk at work and cheering. Before her election to the office of President in 2022, Ms. Davis Gates served for four years as Vice President of the Union. Im not going on your field trip because its not fair.. Sharkey was first elected vice president in 2010, when Karen Lewis was elected CTUs president. Three years ago, TEAM Englewood closed as well. We felt like the system was being sabotaged by the people who were in charge of it, and the union was the one institution that had both the interest and the ability to do something about that. Age: 43 April 13, 2020, 10:37 pm. CPS has had four CEOs in the past seven years, including twoBarbara Byrd-Bennett and Forrest Claypoolwho left in disgrace. Stacy can be contacted at [emailprotected]. As for politics, Gates says shes not sure shes cut out for it. Accessed June 01, 2010. One-on-One with CTU President-Elect Stacy Davis Gates. I think Stacy is a remarkably effective public spokesperson. The ongoing pandemic has disproportionately affected Chicagos Black and brown residents, who make up close to 90 percent of CPS families. They are a measure that Duncan, who went on to become U.S. education secretary, exercised frequently during his eight-year stint as CEO and that Rahm Emanuel put to use as mayor. [29] [30] In 2015, donations to the CTU PAC amounted to over $1.5 million, and the CTU PAC spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in support of Cook County Commissioner Jesus Garcia (D), who ran against incumbent Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D). And there was always a segment of my class that was disconnected, that didnt want to hear it or didnt engage fully.. Christel, her husband and her three daughters are all graduates of CPS, with her middle daughter starring for a Marshall Lady Commandos state championship team under legendary coach Dorothy Gaters. The UIC administration is offering raises of 17% over four years, averaging 4.25% per year, the union said. [24], The Foundation was founded in 1969 when it received the Fewkes Tower a 29-story high rise building in Chicago from the Chicago Teachers Union, which had built the tower in 1963 to provide affordable housing to retired teachers. The results were mixed for CTU. Or, Omicrons peaking. Gates is revered and resented in equal partsor at least at equal volume. Our courage, our organizing, our value are necessary in this moment.. 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. It felt like we were set up to take this fall because there were few investments, few supports, and timetables for achievement that they knew we couldnt meet. Despite Chicago Public School enrollment dropping by over 6,000 students in 2019, and by 80,000 students since 2000, the Chicago Teachers Union has refused to allow schools, even failing schools, to close. Blair Paddock | May 24, 2022 8:47 pm. Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Stacy Davis Gates speaks as the CTU and the local school council held a news conference on Sept. 28, 2021, outside Jensen Elementary School in North Lawndale. It irks Gates that theres an expectation that she and the mayor should get along. The winning caucus of Rank-and-File Educators, or CORE Caucus, secured 56% of the vote. My other grandmother was born out of wedlock and ostracized from both sides of her family tree. Members First is running, in part, on the belief that the union needs to have a better relationship with city officials. While at the CTU, Ms. Davis Gates has been the architect of bold political and legislative campaigns for the schools and city that all Chicagoans deserve. The Chicago Teachers Unions heir apparent sees herself as a righteous champion of not just educators but of students. Assets: $16,818,501, The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is the teachers union for 25,000 teachers, paraprofessionals, and other public school employees in the Chicago, Illinois public school system, the third-largest school system in the United States. In the year prior, CTU had lost $4 million. Ms. Davis Gates lives on the South Side of Chicago with her husband and three children. [17], In 2019, CTU launched an 11-day teacher strike, the eleventh since 1969. (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. Current. Gateswho had stepped away from the classroom in 2011 to ramp up her union activities, traveling to Springfield to lobby for the CTUs legislative agenda and serving as the organizations political directorwas elected to fill his post. And now, after CTU president Jesse Sharkey announced in February that he wouldnt seek reelection, she is primed to take over the top slot at what is arguably the nations most powerful teachers union. Christel Williams is a 25-year veteran of Chicago Public Schools, serving as a PSRP delegate, district supervisor, functional vice president and American Federation of Teachers-Illinois Federation of Teachers (AFT-IFT) convention delegate in that time. So we have to be astute historians and know that our voice is necessary to this moment. You dont need notes to talk to your family.. If someone mistreats her, she notices. Stacy Davis Gates was elected president of the Chicago Teachers Union by members on Friday. Neither side backs down from the fight. Students have lost parents, grandparents, and caregivers. But that doesnt faze Gates. Then I started thinking that would put me on the wrong end of the spectrum of justice, she says. Ms. Stacy Davis Gates is the Political and Legislative Director of the Chicago Teachers Union AFT Local 1. Accessed June 02, 2020. The auditorium was named for playwright Lorraine Hansberry, who graduated in 1947. [8], In 1916, the Chicago Teacher Federation founded the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and became the Local 1. 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. And it was an early glimpse at the way some kids are placed on a path to succeed, while others are left behind. Closures as a reform measure became an option in 1995, when Mayor Richard M. Daley gained control of the citys schools under a new state law. CTU charter educators strike UNO/Acero, December 04, 2018. But she didnt play any games. If the labor movements instinct has been to reduce demands in order to sound reasonable, the new CTU took the opposite approach, McAlevey wrote. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. You need to run for public office. Salary Constraint Annual Dues; Members other than Paraprofessional: $57,869* or more: Between $46,439* and $57,869* 1% of salary. The Chicago Teachers Unions monthly executive board meeting was scheduled at the same time as its Jammin for PEACE celebration, which overlapped with a group of Nicholson STEM Academy teachers gathering virtually with their union delegate to talk pedagogy, burnout, and whatever else needed airinga discussion Gates had promised to attend. And I need you to see love as the essential tool to continue to transform this city, this state, this nation, and this world. The 2019 teachers strike, which took place five months into Lightfoots term, captured national attention for both its length and the groundbreaking issues it brought to the bargaining table. I need you to stay in love with the children in this school district. McQueary, Kristen. 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. While at the CTU, Ms. Davis Gates has been the architect of bold political and legislative campaigns for the schools and city that all Chicagoans deserve. Students would try you a lot, Kimbrough says. Her maternal grandmother left Arkansas, worked on the West Side of Chicago, and wound her way to South Bend. Learn more about how easy it is to take the next step and join the IFT! For nearly 20 years before becoming president of the teachers union, she was a high school chemistry teacher. Stephanie Simon and James B. Kelleher, Analysis: Striking Chicago teachers take on national education reform, Reuters, September 10, 2012. They are demanding affordable housing for students, Washington Post, October 16, 2019. For more than 75 years the Chicago Teachers Union has fought for the schools Chicagos students deserve. In the absence of a union endorsement, two senior CTU leaders, Jesse Sharkey and Stacy Davis Gates, endorsed the Vermont Senator. Photographs and illustrations, as well as text, cannot be used without permission from the AFT. Maybe not, but she can deliver one hell of a speech. Gates and her husband, Kevin, have three childrenin second, fifth, and seventh grades. I need you to be even more in love with equity and justice. 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. We, teachers, and other educational personnel in the Chicago Public Schools, being members of the Chicago Teachers Union, do hereby declare this Union to have the following purposes: to protect and improve the services of the public schools as a social agency for developing the capacities of the young and promoting adult education; to promote and guarantee efficient and faithful service from us to the public and to insure to us in return for that service a fair reward and a just security; in accordance with the Agreement between the Board of Education of the City of Chicago and Chicago Teachers Union, to assert, secure, and protect the inherent and fundamental equity in our jobs; as the sole collective bargaining agent for members of the bargaining unit, to establish and maintain orderly and practicable democratic processes in the management of the Chicago public schools, in accordance with the terms of the Agreement; to maintain a relationship of mutual assistance and cooperation with organized labor; to unify the educators of traditional public schools and public charter schools in the City of Chicago, together with other Chicago-area educators that may join with this Union. Accessed June 01, 2020. The CTU represents Chicago area teachers in regular collective bargaining contract agreements. It does something to you., As Englewood High School was closing, the CTU was undergoing a radical transformation, led largely by Potter, away from a pay-and-benefits focus and toward a citizen activist approach. The challengers. It made me feel powerless. $497.86: Less than $46,439* $721.68: Paraprofessionals and School-related Personnel: N/A: [38], The Chicago Teachers Union is led by CTU President Jesse Sharkey, who was appointed to the position in 2018. [14] After a strike in 1987, there was a period of relative peace, with no teacher strikes until 2012. Elizabeth Warren, a presidential candidate at the time, joined teachers on the picket line on a blustery October morning. Day, Marcus, The International Socialist Organization backs Mayor Emanuels attack on Chicago teachers, World Socialist Web Site, February 18, 2016. The Members First caucus came in with 27%, and the REAL caucus with 17%. Holocaust-denier gets nearly 40 percent of vote in 2 Mount Greenwood precincts. Stacy Davis Gates Stacy Davis Gates is vice president of the 28,000-member Chicago Teachers Union and a mother of three children in Chicago's public schools. They take away the things we need the most in order to survive. Enrollment had declined precipitously. She attended Saint Marys College, the University of Notre Dame, and Concordia University. She sees work stoppages and strikes as the first step and not the last one. You may use these HTML tags and attributes:

, Enter your email address to receive new and updated COAL website news articles. Accessed June 01, 2020. [13]. Chicago Teachers Union, History. 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. However, due to the Loeb Rule, the Chicago Board of Education fired dozens of participating teachers. And they tried her a lot because she was younger. After her twelve-year career as a classroom educator, Stacy married her political ambitions with her passion for educational advocacy and joined the revitalized Chicago Teachers Union. Thank you so much for everything you do. Jackson Potter is the Vice President of the Chicago Teachers Union. Not just for the team of people I work with every day, but also for the members., She tries to imagine her grandmothers, as girls, imagining her. The Federation challenged this rule in court, with mixed results. God Bless. She imagined her students voices landing on the ears of the decision makers the way Charlie Browns teachers words sounded to the Peanuts classroom. Chicago has closed or radically shaken up some 200 public schools, or a third of the district, since 2002, according to a WBEZ investigation. [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. Im PROUD of you. The union made a push for affordable housing for students and teachers to be written into their contract, along with sanctuary protection for immigrantsunprecedented demands. While at the CTU, Ms. Davis Gates has been the architect of bold political and legislative campaigns for the schools and city that all Chicagoans deserve. [1] Law, Justin, The Courts vs. (Current CEO Pedro Martinez, in office since September, didnt respond to requests for an interview for this story.) There are those who assertin letters to the editor, in editorials, in op-eds, on Twitter, from podiumsthat the CTUs fights actively harm children and families in Chicago. Even as a sixth grader, it bugged herjust as the injustice and tragedy she sees now motivate her. As a district supervisor for Midway Network 1, she worked with the CTUs organizing department, parents, teachers and community members in the fight to oppose the turnaround of Marquette Elementary School and against abusive and counterproductive network administrators. They attend a public school on the South Side. These are very difficult human conditions that were trying to make sense of, she says. The Executive Board of the Chicago Teachers Union is comprised of the elected officers, committee chairs, appointed members and union staff. Her mother was born in the South and left during the Great Migration. Im going to continue to embody both of their hopes and dreams, but also provide a pathway for the Hazel and the Laura in my household right now, that they get to be whoever they want to be in this world. Later she tells me: I cant advocate on behalf of public education and the children of this city and educators in this city without it taking root in my own household.. Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. Davis Gates has also spearheaded successful statewide legislative campaigns to pass the strongest charter school accountability measures in the country, to restore the bargaining rights of Chicago Public Schools employees, and to fully fund public education by ending tax loopholes for the 1%. Advertisement Key Data We dont win half the things we achieved in 2019 without Stacy, says Jackson Potter, the unions former staff coordinator. This is not like a couple of angry Black women.. In 2020, the city was running an $838 million budget deficit, and Chicago's school system bonds have been rated below investment-grade in recent years. That was the moment I was radicalized.. Davis Gates lives on the South Side of Chicago with her husband and three children. He hasnt publicly ruled it out, but he says his current plan is to return to the classroom. Photo: Colin Boyle/Associated Press CTU is a local union of the American Federation of Teachers, the countrys second-largest national teachers union. We see our schools closed and defunded. They remain on strike. Whos the president of the Chicago Teachers Union? 2023 Chicago Teachers Union. [1] Grossman, Ron, As Chicago teachers vote to authorize a strike, a look back at the citys labor history, Chicago Tribune, September 27, 2019. Prior to that, she served as the unions Political and Legislative Director. Mitch Smith and Monica Davey, Chicago Teachers Strike, Longest in Decades, Ends, New York Times, October 31, 2019. By her second semester of teaching, Gates started looking for ways to make inroads with her students that had little to do with curriculum. Teacher Unionism, The Labor and Working Class History Association, May 23, 2014. The problems are complex. Ms. Gates, outstanding articulation of concise and pointed perspectives given on WCPT 820 AM on 10/18. Moran, Theresa, Behind the Chicago Teachers Strike, Labor Notes, September 10, 2012. And shes not about to let anyone stand in her way. Action Network, CTU PAC. Fusco, Chris, The Watchdogs: How Chicago Teachers Union spends its money, Chicago Sun-Times, January 30, 2017. Ms. Davis Gates has also spearheaded statewide legislative campaigns to pass the strongest charter school accountability measures in the country, push for the restoration of the bargaining rights of Chicago Public Schools employees, and fully fund public education by ending tax loopholes for the 1 percent. This is an organization that historically has represented an awful lot of important stuff in the aspirations of working-class Chicagoans in general, but Black working-class Chicagoans especially. It was a lot of things, Sharkey says about not seeking reelection. 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. The Chicago Teachers Union is an organization of educators dedicated to advancing and promoting quality public education, improving teaching and learning conditions, and protecting members rights. We are committed to advancing these principles through community engagement, organizing, collective bargaining and political activism, and especially through the work our members do. 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. 1)Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight, 2)When they call you a terrorist, a black lives matter memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele, foreword by Angela Y. Davis, 3)How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates. In 2017, Ms. Davis Gates was elected Chair of United Working Families, an independent political organization by and for working class people and our movements. Illinois law limits what unions can include as part of a contract negotiation. And the classroom teacher is tasked with making sense of it. When the school closed in 2008, Gates moved to Roberto Clemente Community Academy in Ukrainian Village, a high school that had been tasked with absorbing students reassigned from Austin Community Academy High School, which was shuttered in 2007. Accessed June 02, 2020. That the public sparring and uncertainty send families fleeing for private schools or the suburbs. In Gatess office at CTU headquarters, a Notorious SDG print with her likeness hangs above her deska riff on those Notorious RBG prints that were ubiquitous for a while. Unless, that is, she is somehow beaten out in the May 20 election by a dissenting caucus of Chicago Public Schools employees called Members First. Johnson was paid a $103,000 salary by CTU, in addition to his $85,000 salary as a Cook County Commissioner. Ms. Davis Gates is currently on leave from the classroom, where she taught high school social studies for over a decade at Englewood, Clemente, and Mason Community Links High Schools. Dont be compelled to turn around and walk backwards in the time of need. [6], The Chicago Teachers Unions annual dues for 2019-2020 are $1,146.28 for each teacher. Accessed June 01, 2020. Chicago Teachers Union Foundation, About. That was followed by another five days of canceled classes after members voted to return to remote learning during this Januarys omicron surge and the district responded by locking them out of their virtual classrooms. 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. Tara Stamps, a CTU administrator and daughter of the late community activist Marion Nzinga Stamps, was onstage introducing the Jammin for PEACE speakers and performers. In 2012, teachers went on strike for seven days. Accessed June 02, 2020. Accessed June 02, 2020. I was hurt. Chicago Teachers Union, Press Release: STRIKE! She has raised millions of dollars to elect classroom teachers to all levels of local government, and challenge school privatizers and union busters. So we got next. Net assets declined to less than $1 million. Thats my family, she said. [1] American Federation of Teachers, To Form a More Perfect Union. Included in that spending was $300,000 to Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle (D) for her Mayoral campaign. Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Stacy Davis Gates was elected president of the organization Friday, after a race against two other candidates vying to take the place of outgoing president Jesse Sharkey. 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. I love you.. When my members hear how much I love them, they hear Laura., Shes loath to squander the opportunities they provided her. [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. Bellware, Kim, Chicago teachers say they will go on strike. But they had an air of choreography, she says, of an outcome predetermined before anyone even spoke. Both branches took the same path, Gates says. As a rank-and-file member, she was active in the charter outreach committee, clinicians steering committee and the CTU Latino Caucus policy committee. Chicago Teachers Union vice president Stacy Davis Gates talks about the looming vote to decide whether members will work remotely, in opposition to the schoo. Subscribe to one or more of our free e-mail newsletters to get instant updates on local news, events, and opportunities in Chicago. 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