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Chicago charter school teachers and staff are building a network in which we can share ideas, pool professional resources and speak out on important issues affecting our students, our schools and our profession. The Chicago Alliance of Charter Teachers & Staff (Chicago ACTS) is committed to ensuring that teachers and staff have a real voice in decision making and are respected as professionals within their schools.
Feature Story
Teachers at three Chicago International charter schools—the first charters to unionize in Chicago—are taking their first steps toward negotiating a contract with their employer, Civitas Schools.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As the Obama administration pushes for more charter
schools, a teachers' union is pushing for a bigger role in them.
On Tuesday in New York, the United Federation of Teachers expects to
formalize a contract with teachers at Green Dot New York Charter School
in the Bronx, a high school run by Green Dot, a nonprofit group that
operates charter schools. Ten other New York charter schools are
unionized.
A record-setting torrential rainfall, hail, flooded roads and power outages couldn’t keep members of the Chicago Alliance of Charter Teachers and Staff (Chicago ACTS) and their supporters from getting together June 19 to celebrate their historic victory in organizing a union at three campuses of a Chicago public charter school.
Teachers and staff at three Civitas charter schools once again showed their strong commitment to improving learning and working conditions at their schools by voting Thursday to unionize.
“Today’s historic victory sends a strong and clear message to Civitas school officials about our desire to have a say in our schools and work collaboratively,” said Laura McMahon, an eighth grade reading teacher at the Civitas Wrightwood campus and a member of the union, the Chicago Alliance of Charter Teachers and Staff. (Chicago ACTS). “We expect Civitas will recognize the union now and begin the collective bargaining process.”
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