CHICAGOUNIONTEACHER

CPS slams educators, school communities

with year-end layoffs, but our contract

provides protections for teachers, staff

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June 2019 ⁄ Volume 82 ⁄ Number 8

Also in this issue...

The sordid history of CPS’ special ed

failings and how the Union is fi ghting back

to protect our most vulnerable students

with disabilitiesPAGES 8 AND 9

Educators know learning is diffi cult

for students with nowhere to sleep,

which is why affordable housing is a key demand of ours

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President’s message: Thanks for another year of promises kept to our students. Rest up this summer for the fi ghts ahead PAGE 3

History teacher and Louder Than a Bomb coach uses hip hop to make poetry in the classroom PAGE 2

A third wave of historic charter strikes posts big wins, advancing our campaign to change the way the industry does business PAGE 4

We are in the streets and at the bargaining table pushing Mayor Lori Lightfoot to keep her promises to educators and their students who need smaller class sizes, more staffi ng and special ed resources, and a fair pay raise for teachers. PAGE 6

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CPS year-end layoffs amount to a slap in the faceHow to protect your rights if you are laid off

BY CTU COMMUNICATIONS

Despite receiving more money from the state this year, at the end of

May, Chicago Public Schools announced another round of layoffs that, according to the district’s own numbers, are higher than last year. The Chi-cago Teachers Union has called on Mayor Lori Lightfoot to reverse the cuts and to begin keeping her promises of equity and justice to Chicago teachers, parents and students.

“These layoffs are a slap in the face to the people of Chica-go, who voted for equity and ed-ucational justice for our schools this spring, not more cuts and austerity,” CTU President Jes-se Sharkey said. “And they are a slap in the face to our school communities, which rely on these workers, mostly Black and Brown women, as critical sourc-es of support in their schools.”

Despite inadequate staffing and large class sizes, CPS con-tinues to disrespect our educa-tors and students with layoffs. But thanks to our contract, laid off teachers have rights. If you have been laid off, refer to the CTU-Board contract and con-tact your field representative for additional information.

What to do if you are laid off

Protect your rights

• Contact your field represen-tative. Find his or her contact info at www.ctulocal1.org/reps/ or call the CTU office,

312-329-9100.

• Do not resign your position unless you intend to leave the district permanently.

• Keep all documents received from CPS, check your CPS email and print any communications in case you lose your school email.

• If you believe you were laid off in error, please notify the Union as soon as possible and contact your field rep.

Apply for unemployment benefits

• Illinois law prohibits teach-ers from collecting unemploy-ment over summer break so your eligibility will begin on the first day you would have returned to work.

• If you are working as a day-to-day substitute, your eligi-bility will vary from week to week depending on how much you earned in that period from CPS. At this point, benefits are payable for a 26-week period.

• Begin your application on-line at www.ides.illinois.gov or call the Claimant Services Center at 800-244-5631 or use Teleserve at 312-338-IDES (-4337). You can also visit your local IDES office.

Secure medical insurance

• Laid off educators will keep their health and dental insur-ance through August 31.

• If you have insurance avail-

able through a spouse, see if you can enroll. But you must apply within 30 days from the date of the cancellation of your CPS insurance.

• If you choose COBRA, you have 60 days to enroll from the last day you are insured. CO-BRA will charge you retroac-tively to the first day you were released from your insurance. COBRA is expensive, but it will be available to you and your family for a total of 18 months.

• Medicaid and Illinois Kids First are insurance programs available to some families. Eli-gibility is determined by family income.

To apply for a job at another school

• Job fairs for teachers will be held: June 25, 26, July 1, 2, 9, 10 (register at cps.edu/talent).

• Job fairs for PSRPs will be held June 27, July 2, July 18, Aug. 15 (for the July 2 event, reg-ister at cps.edu/talent, for others more information will be avail-able on the CPS Facebook Page).

• Go to the CPS Careers Page, https://cps.edu/careers/pages/careers.aspx  and “Build Your Teacher Profile.” This takes you to a page where you will pick one or more subject areas you are certified to teach. Then, fill out the information requested.

• If you run into problems, you can email  talentoffice@cps.edu  or  teacherrecruitment@cps.edu.

History teacher marries hip-hop and teaching to make poetry for his studentsErik King brings together history and hip-hop to motivate a new generation of Chicago youth.

BY JIM STAROS

Erik Young is a long-serving history teacher and coach of the Louder Than A Bomb (LTAB) hip-hop poetry team at King College Prep in Bronzeville, but

his path to success wasn’t always certain.He grew up in the Philadelphia public schools, and,

although he had a supportive family, he says his teachers did not give him much encouragement to go on to higher education.

“I had a guidance counselor who told me that I proba-bly wouldn’t make it in college,” Young says. “That’s what initially motivated me to go.”

His grammar school and high school years corre-sponded with the rise of hip-hop, which immediately drew him in. “I’ve always loved history, poetry and hip-hop…kind of going against the grain [and] that’s what attracted me to the style.”

He was the first in his family to attend college, enroll-ing in the University of Rochester, where he played foot-ball and double majored in political science and African American studies. He also earned his Master of Education at Rochester, as well as teaching for six years in the city’s public schools. All the while, he continued to write poetry.

When he moved to Chicago—or as he puts it “married into Chicago”—he put his teaching skills to use at Lincoln Park High School and his poetry talents to work at Young Chicago Authors, the non-profit organization that hosts Louder Than A Bomb, the largest youth poetry festival in the world.

Young coached the LPHS poetry team for most of the decade he taught at the school. When he moved to King in 2008, he began a very successful team there as well. More than 120 schools participate in LTAB each year, and King’s team reached the quarterfinals this past year.

He begins working with the team in October every year, and by early spring, they meet daily to prepare for the com-petition in March. Young says he loves spending time with the students, developing their voice, as he did when he was in the public schools back in Rochester. He says his teach-ing and his life are just like his poetry and his rhymes.

“I live and teach that way, against the grain…always seeking out new avenues, things that are a little different than most,” he says.

Young’s teaching and commitment to his students has certainly made a difference to them and to his colleagues.

Jim Staros is a history teacher at King College Prep.

Erik King, King College Prep High School history teacher and coach of the school’s Louder Than a Bomb team. (Photo: CTU Communications)

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When the new mayor speaks of a “new day,” we hope it is a day without the lack of resources and trauma that many of your schools and students face.

Promises made,promises keptSisters and Brothers,

I know you promised to do the best for your students when the school year began in September. You have not only been educators, but nurses, social work-ers, counselors, and mediators. Many of you have not only educated your stu-dents, but also fed, clothed, protected and found housing for them.

Throughout the year, you kept your promise to our students, despite the many challenges faced in school build-ings every day. My heartfelt thanks goes out to you, and I am extremely proud of the work you do every day in our schools.

You also kept your promise to your union this year. You have stood strong with the Chicago Teachers Union de-spite the Janus decision’s attack on organized labor—an attack that orig-inated in Illinois with former governor Bruce Rauner. We are stronger than ever as a union, and remain united be-hind the common goal of fighting for the schools our students deserve.

One of the promises our union made at the start of the year was to change the way the charter industry does business, and fight for better working conditions for charter educators and better learn-ing conditions for their students. We kept that promise and adopted a strat-egy to amplify our power by bargaining over a set of common demands at the same time with multiple operators. Our charter sisters and brothers won new charter contracts that direct millions of dollars away from charter boardrooms and into classrooms where that money belongs—and is so critically needed.

Charter educators won significant class size reductions, additional staff-ing, equal pay for equal work, protec-tion for special education students, and sanctuary protections for immigrant students and their families. We sent a clear message to the charter indus-try through three rounds of historic strikes: Clean up your act and start putting your students first.

These charter wins will help us push those same demands in bargain-ing with the district over the summer. We have entered the fact-finding stage so we can preserve our right to strike

in the fall—an action we do not want to take, but will take, if needed. May-or Lori Lightfoot ran on a platform that broadly mirrors ours. Will she deny Chicago’s public school students, teachers, clinicians and paraprofes-sionals the resources and teaching and learning conditions that unaccountable charter operators have agreed to? We intend to hold our new mayor to prom-ises she made during her campaign, in-cluding her support for a fully elected representative school board.

I know it is hard to think about the next school year as the clock is ticking toward the end of school in June, but here is something to consider. Septem-ber 2019 marks the start of a school year without Rahm Emanuel, Frank Clark or the rest of a regime that brought closings, scandals and chaos to our schools. The higher graduation rates that the former mayor touted so often? That was your work. When the new mayor speaks of a “new day” in Chicago, we hope it is a day with-out the disastrous conditions, chronic underfunding, lack of resources and trauma that many of your schools and students face. We have new leadership in City Hall, part of which is a reshaped Chicago City Council, with many new powerful and progressive voices who are strong union supporters and advo-cates for our schools.

Now, this is not to say that we will not have big battles to wage on behalf of our students, because we will. We are in a much stronger position to win, how-ever, because district finances have sta-bilized—CPS itself acknowledges this. If we stand united, build our power, and continue working to strengthen our union, we expect to make real gains in our next contract.

I urge you to make one more prom-ise—to yourself. Rest up and relax this summer. Find ways to enjoy time with your family and friends. Find activi-ties that rejuvenate and restore you, whether it is professional development or lounging at the beach with a good book. Then when you return to school in September, let us be ready to work together to move our schools and our union forward.

In solidarity,

Jesse Sharkey

In solidarity,

Jesse Sharkey

thepresident’smessage

The push by the CTU to unionize workers at charter schools has paid and is paying off.

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First U.S. multi-charter strike wins big for educators, students Smaller classes, more staffi ng and student resources, and equal pay for equal work are key to contract victories.

BY MIHIR GARUD

A wave of historic charter strikes—all producing big wins for educators and

students—hit Chicago this year. In December, Chicago Teachers Union members in the UNO/Acero charter network made his-tory with the first-ever charter strike in the U.S. Chicago Inter-national Charter School (CICS) went out for nine bone-chilling days in February, and in May, the first multi-employer strike ever was launched at three schools.

More than 700 charter teach-ers at 22 different schools have been on picket lines in Chicago this year fighting for a fair con-tract. Their charter demands included more resources for classrooms, wraparound ser-vices, and protections for un-documented students. Salaries for CTU educators at charter schools were about $13,000 less, on average, than educators at dis-trict schools, so they demanded equal pay for equal work. By lin-

ing up contracts to expire around the same time, members of the Union’s charter division were able to bargain over a set of com-mon demands with 11 different charter operators.

The latest strike, waged at three schools in May, was the first in the nation to hit multiple charter operators at the same time. Educators struck at two schools operated by Instituto del Progreso Latino (IDPL) and at Latino Youth High School, operated by Pilsen Wellness. Bargaining at two other schools, Chicago Academy for the Arts and Youth Connection Leader-ship Academy, produced signifi-cant gains before their members were forced to the picket lines.

I teach consumer education at Instituto Health Sciences Career Academy (IHSCA), one of the three schools on strike in May. In the past two years, my school has suffered 40 percent educator turnover, mainly due to low wages and the absence of a parental leave policy. Years

of staffing and budget cuts at Instituto Justice and Leader-ship Academy (ILJA), the other school run by IDPL, have led to cuts in education and counseling services that students receive. High turnover and low wages are key ingredients in charter oper-ators’ business strategies, which aim to pay workers less, cram more students into classrooms and deny children their federal-ly mandated special education and English Language Learner (ELL) services.

Because we are stronger to-gether, our bargaining team at Instituto decided to bargain for one contract between its two schools. At the conclusion of the three-day strike, we won:

• Smaller class sizes, including a cap of 27 at IHSCA and 25 at IJLA, with Instituto paying a financial penalty to teachers for exceeding the caps;

• Sanctuary protections for un-documented students;

• Improved wraparound ser-

vices, with decreased ratios for social workers and counselors and ratios of nurses and psychol-ogists that meet the professional recommendations;

• Language that requires the employer to follow laws related to special education and ELL, and allows members to file a grievance for violations;

• Clerical staff at IHSCA struck for recognition and will now be included in our bargaining unit;

• A financial package that puts our members near parity with CPS wages, with progressive raises to 102 percent of the cur-rent CPS scale in three years.

Educators at Latino Youth High School who struck for two days also achieved big wins, in-cluding:

• Mental health support and a school counselor for all students;

• Big steps toward wage parity with CPS workers;

• Maternity/paternity benefits for the first time;

• A shorter workday with no im-pact on student instruction;

• Restorative justice and cul-turally relevant instruction for students;

• Sanctuary protections for the high school’s youth, which is crit-ically important for the impov-erished, overwhelmingly Latinx student population the school serves.

These strikes represent a his-toric movement against public school privatization and against public dollars going to man-agement via financial schemes like charging rent to schools or draining budgets through high

management fees. Instituto alone charges its two schools almost a million dollars annu-ally in fees—up this year alone by 20 percent at IHSCA—even though both schools already pay out of their own budgets for all “management” expenses such as school administration, payroll, recruitment, legal and account-ing costs.

The new contract forces In-stituto to move more public ed-ucation dollars into school com-munities and resources instead of the charter operator’s non-ed-ucational bureaucracy—a broad goal of the CTU’s bargaining across the charter landscape.

The push by the CTU to unionize workers at charter schools is paying off. It is slowing charter proliferation while mak-ing charter operators think twice before they open charter schools in our city. Roughly 25 percent of Chicago’s charter schools are unionized, compared to a na-tional average of around 10 per-cent. Charter operators have got-ten the message loud and clear that Chicago is a union town. When we fight, we win!

Mihir Garud is the CTU-ACTS trustee and a social sciences teacher at Instituto Health Sciences Career Academy. 

Instituto Health Sciences Career Academy (IHSCA) educators and staff on the picket line during their strike in May. (Photo: Chris Baehrend)

BY THE NUMBERS

36 Percentage of students under 18

in households where no parent had a regular, full-time job in 2016.

10 Percentage decline in affordable rental units

in Chicago since 2012.

16 Percentage of employed Black teens

in Chicago, compared to 29% across the country.

78 Percentage of CPS students living in

low-income households.

18 Black unemployment rate in Chicago,

compared to 9.3% for Latinx and 4.1% for white workers.

17,894The number of homeless CPS students by the end of the 2017-2018 school year, which amounts to 4% of all students.

-$34,394The difference in median household income between white and Latinx families in Chicago.

-$44,982The difference in median household income between white and Black families in Chicago.

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The fi ght for housing stability Contract battle offers new tool to protect our students and their families.

BY THE CTU HOUSING COMMITTEE

During his eight-year reign over Chicago, Rahm Emanuel earned the

nickname Mayor 1 Percent for good reason. You see new luxury developments in any direction you look, and, on his way out the door, the mayor ensured passage of the largest TIF in city history to fund the Lincoln Yards devel-opment, a new luxury neighbor-hood for Chicago’s wealthy.

You see a different reality in our schools and neighborhoods—one of chronic disinvestment and lack of basic services. Any teacher could make a laundry list of needs for their schools and communi-ties, but if families do not have a place to live, it is very difficult for them to stay in our neighbor-hoods. Without students, we can-not have schools. So, to fully sup-port our public schools, we must address the lack of sustainable, affordable housing in our city.

Consider this: At least 18,000 Chicago Public Schools students are “Students in Temporary Liv-ing Situations,” living doubled up with other families or in their cars, motels or shelters. This number is greatly under-report-ed, and school-based resources to support these families are grossly insufficient. We need to fight for housing for our students

and their families, and fight for school staff who share love for the communities in which we teach.  

A new Chicago Teachers Union committee has formed to address the critical issue of hous-ing insecurity for CPS families and our members. This commit-tee will work to support several housing demands in current contract negotiations, as well as work in coalition with commu-nity partners on city, county and state housing initiatives.

Being legally binding, our contract is an innovative tool to achieve housing goals that may be elusive in other arenas. Our current contract proposals direct CPS to:

• Advocate for a city housing pol-icy that creates affordable housing at a rate greater than or equal to the creation of market rate hous-ing, and support legislative efforts to enact rent control;

• Institute a program that fi-nancially helps new teachers purchase a home;

• Hire staff to support CPS families in danger of losing their housing, for example, by hiring full-time School Community Representatives at schools with the largest percentage of home-less students;

• Ensure the city use TIF funds

and revenue from real estate transfer taxes, a corporate head tax and a millionaire’s tax to fund affordable family housing units within the enrollment boundary of our Sustainable Community Schools;

• Fully fund Section 8 voucher programs and expand Airbnb housing rehabilitation to prop-erly house 15,000 homeless stu-dents by 2020.

In addition, the CTU House of Delegates passed a resolution

in May in support of lifting the statewide ban on rent control. If approved, the measure could help prevent thousands of fam-ilies from being displaced by gentrification. The CTU has also joined the Lift the Ban Co-alition, which is working to end the statewide rent control ban.

Access to stable, affordable housing is critical to the success of our schools and communities. That is why the CTU made it a key plank in the Schools Our Children Deserve platform. We now need to work together with our fami-lies, students and community al-lies to make this vision a reality.

There are many ways to support the Union’s efforts for fair and affordable housing policies in Chicago. Email CTU education policy analyst Sarah Rothschild at SarahRothschild@ctulocal1.org to join our housing committee. Attend community meetings and rallies to share your stories about how homelessness or the lack of affordable housing impacts your school and your students. Lobby your state and city elected officials to work for rent control and afford-able hou sing.

Access to stable, affordable housing is critical to the success of our schools and communities.

The Lift the Ban Coalition protests at the corporate offi ce of predatory landlord Pangea Real Estate during its “First Of The Month” action on Feb. 2, 2019.

Affordable housing is only part of the fi ght for justice for students and families

Student learning does not just depend on what hap-pens inside classrooms, as

rent drives families out of neigh-borhoods, or students live in fear of ICE.

We need sustainable commu-nity schools that service whole families, and safety practices that do not treat our kids like criminals. The CTU will fight

for social justice for our students and their families with demands in the following areas:

• Culturally relevant education;

• Increasing the number of teach-ers of color;

• Affordable housing;

• Homeless student assistance;

• Services for English Language Learners;

• True sanctuary for immigrant students;

• Building educator/parent partnerships;

• Fewer police in schools; more clinicians, counselors and re-storative justice coordinators.

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As school ends, bargaining continuesOur Union continues to negotiate for the schools our students deserve, and while we hope the mayor will keep her promises, we will be strike-ready in the fall.

BY CTU COMMUNICATIONS

Our current con-tract expires June 30, and we will

bargain hard to settle a contract, with or without a strike, in the fall. New Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she wants to settle a contract by then, too. To do so, she must keep her promises and negotiate a good contract, including fair pay and benefits (in-cluding but not limited to raises), smaller class sizes, substantially more staffing and agreeing to our just schools demands. To that end, bargaining will oc-cur regularly throughout the summer. Bargaining team members, Executive Board members, and dis-trict organizers will help ensure that delegates and members receive regular updates on negotiations and opportunities to be involved. 

It is vitally important that delegates and Con-tract Action Team mem-bers have updated con-tact information for all current Chicago Teachers

Union members in their schools so they can help share bargaining updates over the summer. Mem-bers should also update their contact information with the Union office via the Memberlink Portal so they can receive import-ant emails, calls, and texts directly from CTU. We expect members will need to review what is on the table once the new 2019-2020 school year begins and to be ready to take a strike authorization vote, if needed, once we’re back in schools. Our grievance on CPS’ non-contractual in-creases of our health care premiums will be heard on Sept. 16, so we expect to have updates on that related fight as well.

It will be important that we hit the ground running when we’re back in schools in the fall, including hold-ing union meetings in every school in the first two weeks to discuss bar-gaining updates, debate strategy and hold a pos-sible strike authorization vote. We will be strike-ready at the beginning of

the school year. Members, delegates, and Contract Action Teams can use our online toolkit at www.ctulocal1.org/movement/contract-campaigns. Join us at the June 26 Board of Education meeting where the CTU will welcome and call on the newly appoint-ed Board of Education to reverse the unnecessary layoffs, begin the process of meeting our bargaining demands, and agree to call for an Elected Representa-tive School Board, which the new mayor previously campaigned on but has worked to stall in the Illi-nois Senate just like Rahm.

More on the bargaining timeline

SB 7: What we’re up against in state law

In 2011, at the urging of anti-union leaders includ-ing Rahm Emanuel and Bruce Rauner, the Illinois legislature passed SB 7, a bill specifically designed to weaken the CTU’s abil-ity to bargain fair wages and working conditions for

our members. SB 7 erect-ed a series of procedur-al hoops that CTU must jump through before we can exercise our right to strike over unacceptable contract proposals from CPS. This law doubles down on section 4.5 of the Illinois Education Labor Relations Act (IERLA), which limits our bargain-ing rights over certain sub-jects such as class size. SB 7 applies only to Chicago, denying our members the rights enjoyed by teachers in every other school dis-trict in the state.

The hoops we jump through to comply with SB 7

Among other things, SB 7 requires that, before the CTU can strike over an im-passe in contract negotia-tions, CTU and CPS must:

1. engage in “a reasonable period of mediation” (we’ve done this part);

2. appoint a neutral fact finder who will issue a re-port with a recommended settlement of the contract

within 75 days of his/her appointment (the fact finder has been appointed, and we should expect this report in August as we are coming back to school);

3. each accept or reject the fact finder’s recommenda-tion within 15 days;

4. publish the fact finder’s report to the public if ei-ther or both parties reject it;

5. wait 30 days after the publication of the rejected fact finder’s report;

6. secure a vote of 75 per-cent of the bargaining unit authorizing a strike;

7. provide a 10-day notice of the intent to strike.

All these hoops were specifically designed to favor the boss and make it more difficult for us to exercise our collective strength and win im-provements in wages and learning and working conditions. To date, we have successfully held CPS to the timeline, and we’re continuing to urge the new

mayor to keep her promise to bargain fairly with our members and support a school district built on real equity for our students and real dignity for our mem-bers. As long as we keep moving the timeline, we will have the right to strike as early as late September if we need to.

What is open bargaining?

In an effort to provide more member engagement and involvement in bar-gaining—and potentially community and public input—the CTU request-ed that CPS participate in at least three open bar-gaining sessions. The new mayor previously signaled a willingness to move to-ward more transparency and ran on a platform sup-porting many of our key issues. But, at press time, CPS was refusing to par-ticipate in any open bar-gaining sessions. We went forward with our first ses-sion June 11, and we expect additional sessions over the summer.

Marching on May 22 (Photo: Erica Clark)

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Google apps making you crazy? Quest Center is here to help! BY MARK SIDAROUS

In 2012, Chicago Public Schools adopted Gmail as the district-wide email system, replacing three different email systems with a unified

one. Along with Gmail came a raft of other ser-vices—Google Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive—with later additions over the years, including Google Classroom, Drawing, YouTube, Expeditions, Maps and Chrome. More and more of CPS’ core services have been moved under the Google umbrella. With nearly half a million us-ers, CPS is one of Google’s largest customers.

For teachers who have grown accustomed to using these tools outside of the classroom, this has been a smooth transition from an archaic system to a modern set of powerful tools. For many oth-ers who do not have prior experience with Google apps, this process has been turbulent. There is a district expectation that teachers should develop their skills with a multitude of new apps before they set foot in the classroom. Department meet-ings, lesson or unit plans, administrator appoint-ments, writing assignments, and student data manipulation all require the use of tools that may or may not be familiar to teachers.

I have heard from many excellent educators that this is a major source of stress in their lives. Not only are these tools new, but the interface frequently changes. Google Classroom, for ex-ample, has undergone major redesigns each year of its life. Buttons have been moved, new func-tionality has been added and a few features have been removed within a very short time span. These tools can be very useful and have the po-tential to speed up many classroom tasks, but regular practice and training may be necessary to develop proficiency.

Fortunately, there are plenty of resources available for educators in search of training and practice. As a professional development facilita-tor at the Chicago Teachers Union Foundation Quest Center, I offer a four-session series de-signed to demonstrate how to use Google apps to provide quality instruction for all students. Apps and gadgets are no substitute for a great teacher, and my aim is to provide educators with more tools to put in their pedagogical toolbox. I have had the pleasure of teaching this series five times, and each cohort of teachers has left with useful skills and strategies to implement in their classrooms. This series also will help to prepare teachers for the Google Certified Educa-tor exam, which provides a certificate that shows your proficiency in the use of Google apps.

CPS also partners with Google to provide summer boot camps to train for the exam, and hosts an annual summer conference called Googlepalooza on all things Google. Look out for more information on these events in the com-ing weeks.

In the meantime, you can learn more at the CTUF Quest Center. My training series is open to all Union members, whether you are a Google neophyte or an expert. Learn the basics or hone your advanced skills with colleagues from across the city!

Mark Sidarous is a National Board Certified Teach-er at Spry Community Links High School. Space is limited in the Google Apps PD, so sign up now at http://ctuf.org/pd.

Our students speak many languages—so we must, tooCTUF Quest Center responds to changing school populations by offering language courses for educators.

BY RAUL FIGUEROA

En nuestras escuelas—in our schools—we speak Español, Mandarin, English and more.

According to the Annual Re-gional Analysis of 2017, Chica-go Public Schools enrollment decreased 11.8 percent from the 2006-2007 to the 2017-2018 school years. Despite this decrease in the overall number of students, certain populations, such as Lat-inx and Asian students, have shown considerable growth.

CPS’ Latinx student population grew from 158,386—38.3 percent of the total population in 2006—to over 170,000 (46.7 percent) in 2018. Likewise, Asian and Pacific Island-er populations rose from 13,359 (3.2 percent), to 15,500 (4.2 percent).

This change in student popula-tion also has implications for the languages spoken in our schools. For instance, English Language Learner populations have risen from 51,292 (12.53 percent) in

2010 to 67,664 (18.7 percent) in 2018. To appropriately support our students in response to these changing demographics, CPS must hire more staff represen-tative of these cultures and train current staff to become more cul-turally responsive and bilingual.

To further those goals, in the spring of 2018, the Chicago Teach-ers Union Foundation Quest Cen-ter began offering a Spanish com-munication course to help address the need for culturally responsive teacher training, as well as to bridge the language gap between our teachers and communities.

In the 10-session Spanish course, teachers develop basic lan-guage skills and engage in learning experiences about our city’s largest Latinx communities and their cul-tures. For instance, as part of the experience, participants tour the National Museum of Mexican Art and Paseo Boricua to explore and discuss elements of Mexican and Puerto Rican cultures.

The Quest Center offered the course three times in 2018, and it has been widely popular among teachers and received excellent reviews from participants. The course is currently being offered for a fourth time.

Due to the success of this ini-tiative and our assessment of the need for more culturally respon-sive professional learning oppor-tunities, the Quest Center is de-termined to add more language offerings to our professional de-velopment catalog. We are also striving for the development of a language institute that could offer courses such as Chinese (Manda-rin), Urdu and Polish.

Raul Figueroa is a professional de-velopment facilitator at the Chicago Teachers Union Foundation Quest Center. For more information on the Spanish language course, and other professional development offerings, visit the Quest Center at https://www.ctuf.org/questcenter.

As part of the Quest Center’s Spanish Communications course, educators toured the National Museum of Mexican Art. (Photo: Raul Figueroa)

8 April 2017 ∕ Chicago Union Teacher

Fighting for our special ed studentsWe are winning some battles, but our most vulnerable students are still at risk and lack services.

BY KATIE OSGOOD

It has been nearly a year since the Illinois State Board of Ed-ucation (ISBE) took over Chi-

cago Public Schools’ special edu-cation program. That move came after a coalition of special ed ad-vocates, including the Chicago Teachers Union, parent groups, disability-rights groups and legal advocates, sought a state probe into the service delays and deni-als that teachers and families had been complaining about for years.

ISBE initiated a public inqui-ry and ultimately agreed with the advocates who alleged CPS policies and procedures violat-ed federal law. The state put the district under “corrective action” for three years and appointed an independent monitor to oversee CPS fixes to the host of violations identified by the probe—vio-

lations that were harming our neediest learners.

How did we get here?

Beginning in the 2015-2016 school year, under disgraced for-mer CPS CEO Forrest Claypool, the district began implementing a series of blocks and delays to special education services in or-der to save money on the backs of students with disabilities. The process to receive vital services like paraprofessional support, Extended School Year and trans-portation became intentionally burdensome, with extreme pa-perwork requirements and mul-tiple hoops to jump through for teams trying to implement stu-dents’ Individualized Education Plans (IEPs).

Students were immediately affected as their paraprofes-sional supports were dropped

and transportation abruptly cut off. Network and Office of Diverse Learners Supports and Services (ODLSS) staff inten-tionally blocked IEP teams from adding minutes in many areas, interfering with the legal process of identification and support as outlined in federal law. Students were blocked from initial evalua-tions by the excessive paperwork demands.

The result of these delays and denial policies was that many students and staff were put in significant danger, with one student with significant needs drowning at his school after his paraprofessional services were discontinued. Many other stu-dents floundered academically and behaviorally, as they did not receive the services to which they

were entitled.A group of CTU special ed-

ucators, clinicians and PSRPs sprang into action, forming the Special Education Taskforce and inviting parents of students with special needs, special ed advocates, and legal experts into the fight. The taskforce, along with the CTU Special Educa-tion Committee, began leading actions at City Hall, Chicago Board of Education, network of-fices and ISBE—all designed to call attention to these injustices. WBEZ aired an expose on the il-legal special education cuts, and CPS faced greater and greater pressure as the legal and ethical ramifications of these harmful policies were exposed.

Ultimately, ISBE intervened after a public inquiry process

confirmed that CPS’ actions were illegal. Now, CPS must go through an independent mon-itor before making any policy changes to the special education program. The CTU has been deeply involved in this process, attending regular meetings and providing input and direction.

What has ISBE’s corrective action accomplished so far?

There was some immediate relief as the state forced CPS to discontinue many of its paper-work hurdles and procedural blocks. The new Paraprofes-sional Justification Form, put in place to make the process of add-ing paraprofessional services so difficult that many teams could not meet the requirements, was shortened from up to six hours of

Here is a more detailed breakdown of our demands:

1 Dedicated case manager positions

Our top demand is a dedicated special education case manager position in every school building. It is unacceptable that our members are expected to do the full-time job of running the entire special education program in a school while completing separate full-time duties like being a special education teacher or counselor. Our last contract allowed CTU members to refuse these duties, but CPS has not come up with a solution for covering this vital work.

We believe we can finally win this desperately needed position. Case managers should have strong special education backgrounds. They also must

have the time necessary to plan, run and follow-up all IEP and 504 meetings; guarantee strong parent, teacher and clinician collaboration; set up schedules; maintain legal compliance; supervise paraprofessionals; and provide expertise and training for the entire special education team at a school.

Case managers must also be CTU members.

2 Special education law/continuum of services

We are demanding new contract language that memorializes special education law directly in our collective bargaining agreement, making those violations something our members can defend and file grievances over. We also have proposed language that prevents network

or administrative coercion in the IEP decision-making process. The IEP team must be free to make decisions based on student needs.

In addition, we want to protect and expand the continuum of services so that specialized programs for students with moderate-to-severe cognitive disabilities, students on the autism spectrum and students with significant emotional/behavioral needs get the expert and specially designed services we know they require.

3 Prep time/ workload

For elementary and middle school, we are demanding the return of the daily, 30-minute prep at the beginning of the school day (shortening student attendance

time). We are also demanding better coverage—including cadre substitutes in every building who are designated to cover special education classes—in order to guarantee teachers release time to plan, write and implement IEPs. We are demanding that the work of the IEP be prioritized over all other duties, including lesson plans, unnecessary testing and data analysis, and busy work forced on us from above. Our work as special educators must be respected.

We are also demanding sufficient access to special education-specific curriculum, resources and training, including Wilson Reading System Materials/PD, sensory tools and specialized, significantly modified curriculum. We need equitable access across schools and school types to the resources and time we need to do our jobs well.

Chicago Union Teacher ∕ April 2017 9

Gains made in Springfield, but equity agenda blockedUnion calls on new mayor to keep promise, support CTU bargaining rights, ERSB.

BY CTU COMMUNICATIONS

The Chicago Teachers Union made some powerful gains in this spring’s Springfield legislative session. The union won passage of legislation to reign in and

reform the charter industry—including the right of individ-ual school districts to control charter expansion in their dis-tricts. Until both houses passed the legislation, the Illinois State Charter School Commission had unilateral power to ignore school districts’ attempts to close bad operators in their regions.

Legislators also increased the number of days that re-tired teachers and support staff can serve as substitute teachers by 20 percent without sacrificing their pension benefits. The bill is designed to help alleviate an acute shortage of substitute teachers and put retired veteran ed-ucators back in the classroom. Before the legislation passed, retirees could be forced to forfeit their entire pension if they substituted for more than 100 days per year, roughly 20 weeks out of a full school year.

And the legislature has sent a bill to the governor’s desk that would suspend a teacher test that was widely decried for its dubious value—and a dangerous driver of the state’s acute teacher shortage.

But two other CTU initiatives—a bill to restore the Union’s right to bargain over critical issues like class size and staff shortages, and a bill to create an Elected Repre-sentative School Board (ERSB)—both stalled in the sen-ate, where Senate President John Cullerton sandbagged that legislation at the request of Chicago’s new mayor, Lori Lightfoot.

“The mayor ran on her support of an elected represen-tative school board and on an agenda of real equity for neighborhood public schools,” said CTU President Jesse Sharkey. “Cullerton has, unfortunately, a long track record of carrying the water for the previous mayor on some ter-rible legislative initiatives. The new mayor should reverse that practice, respect the platform on which voters elected her, and move to get both these initiatives passed.”

Chicagoans are the only residents in the state denied the right to elect their school board. The bill would have created distinct, walkable districts that ensure that every neighborhood in the city is represented on the school board. The 21-member board would be about 40 percent the size of the City Council and on par with the number of state representatives who are elected by Chicagoans to serve in Springfield.

For more than a quarter of a century, Chicago’s pub-lic school educators have also been denied the right—un-like educators across the state—to bargain over so-called “non-economic” issues like class size and outsourcing. Those restrictions have allowed Chicago’s mayor to push massive privatization of school services, from health ser-vices for special needs students to janitorial services.

That privatization agenda has driven deep deficiencies in health services for special education services and chronic cleanliness and maintenance issues in the public schools, at the same time that class sizes have exploded and the district confronts sweeping shortages of critical frontline staff like school nurses and social workers.

“We’ll continue to work to introduce—and pass—this legislation until we get it done,” said Sharkey. “It’s time for the mayor to fulfill her promises to Chicagoans, get behind these initiatives and start the hard work of building a school district built on real equity for our students.”

work down to 10 or 15 minutes. The unnecessary and burden-some requirements for principal observation and signoff, copious data collection, and not allow-ing IEP teams to add services without a network or district representative present have been removed.

But the damage was done. Schools today are struggling to recover from past injustices. We have more than 300 special education teacher vacancies—a ref lection of overwhelming workloads and paperwork re-quirements. Reduced staffing has taken its toll as teachers leave this broken system.

Parent and staff training from CPS has also been woeful-ly underwhelming. Many of us have heard nothing since sitting through a three-hour training

session and webinar at the be-ginning of the school year. Many staff, even our case managers, are not aware of changes to the IEP or procedural manual. Communication is weak. Many IEP teams do not know to ask about compensatory services for any possible services cut or reduced during Claypool’s reign of terror. Teams are not always aware that they should be filling out the Notes Page in the IEPs, or that there is a new state law requiring a “Non-Implementa-tion Form” to go home 10 days after an IEP is finalized, if ser-vices are not begun by that time.

The CTU continues to re-ceive reports from all over the district that IEP minutes are not being serviced, networks still are interfering with the IEP decision-making process, and schools are not being staffed ap-propriately to meet the needs de-tailed in the IEPs. We continue to have a substitute crisis for all staff, but especially for special education teachers, PSRPs and SECAs. And our case managers are completely overwhelmed with the legal and paperwork requirements of the job.

Where do we go from here?

Right now, we are fighting for the strongest contract we

can get. Our contract demands around special education are designed to prevent a rerun of the illegal actions of past years. Among other things, we are seeking dedicated case man-agers, a prohibition on district reps interfering with the IEP process, cadre substitutes in every building to relieve special ed teachers from incessant sub duty, better co-teaching envi-ronments, and clinicians staffed at the recommended ratios.

We are currently engaged in bargaining subcommittee sessions on special education with the Board, but as of press time, these sessions have not produced much.

Given the fact that CPS’ mis-takes have put the entire special ed program under state con-trol, now is the time to win big around special education. We will be escalating our demands in the coming months and high-lighting how important they are to our students and our work. Be ready to join in, share your sto-ries and walk that picket line if necessary. And keep reporting concerns to the Union and to the ISBE monitor at isbemonitor@isbe.net.

Katie Osgood is a special educa-tion teacher at Suder Montessori.

4 Staffing/ personnel

We are demanding restrictions on the number and distribution of IEPs. We are also calling on CPS to pay for general education teachers to become special educators to address shortages and unfilled positions. We also want CPS to work directly with teacher pipeline programs like Grow Your Own to ensure that the district is hiring qualified new teacher candidates. We also are laying down a hard line against calling on special education teachers and staff for substitute duty and clarifying what an “emergency” is. A teacher calling in for a sick day with no substitute coverage is not an emergency.

Special ed teachers and staff will be the last called to sub and will do so for no more than one hour at a time. Too many principals use our special educators—especially those who work in a co-teaching setting—as an extra body to sub. No more.

We also have several demands around clinician staffing. We know we do not have anywhere near enough social workers, psychologists, nurses and other clinical staff to meet the needs of our special education population, much less do preventative or emergency work with general education students. Our clinicians are overwhelmed with ridiculous caseloads as a result. We are demanding that CPS staffs clinicians at the ratio determined by professional guidelines for each position.

5 Better co-teaching environments

We have several demands specific to co-teaching that require common prep time, a limit on the different subjects and number of co-teachers, and guaranteed access to grades and documents. The co-teaching model, appropriate for many but not all children, only works with sufficient time and resources to implement it correctly.

(Photo: Timotheus “Pharaoh” Gordon)

Special Education teachers Katie Osgood, right, and Natasha Carlsen, left, join parents and legal advocates at the May Chicago Public Schools board meeting to demand more staffing and resources for our students with disabilities. (Photo: Erica Clark)

10 June 2019 ∕ Chicago Union Teacher

ELECTION RESULTS ELECTION RESULTS

TOTAL VOTES FOR OFFICE OF PRESIDENT

CandidateJesse

SharkeyTherese

Boyle

Total Votes Cast

Raw Total 9897 5090 14987Percentage 66.04% 33.96% 100%

SCHOOL-BY-SCHOOL BREAKDOWN

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ACERO - BRIGHTON PARK 17 0 17

ACERO - CISNEROS 22 6 28

ACERO - CLEMENTE 19 0 19

ACERO - DE LA CRUZ 12 0 12

ACERO - DE LAS CASAS 13 0 13

ACERO - FUENTES 21 1 22

ACERO - GARCIA HS 26 4 30

ACERO - MARQUEZ 22 1 23

ACERO - PAZ 25 1 26

ACERO - SANTIAGO 20 1 21

ACERO - SOTO HS 14 1 15

ACERO - TAMAYO 18 0 18

ACERO - TORRES 18 1 19

ACERO - ZIZUMBO 19 0 19

AGASSIZ 23 10 33

AIR FORCE HS 12 12 24

ALBANY PARK 11 5 16

ALCOTT HS 16 3 19

ALDRIDGE 0 3 3

AMUNDSEN HS 68 6 74

ARIEL 5 4 9

ARMOUR 6 8 14

ARMSTRONG G 56 12 68

ASHE 18 1 19ASPIRA - EARLY COLLEGE HS 12 0 12

ASPIRA - HAUGAN 11 1 12

AUSTIN C & C 7 0 7

AVONDALE-LOGANDALE 21 8 29

AZUELA 20 8 28

BACK OF THE YARDS HS 56 6 62

BARNARD 4 15 19

BARRY 36 2 38

BARTON 24 2 26

BASS 23 1 24

BATEMAN 44 5 49

BEARD 21 8 29

BEASLEY 33 7 40

BEAUBIEN 44 14 58

BEETHOVEN 10 2 12

BEIDLER 15 4 19

BELDING 15 16 31

BELL 41 5 46

BENNETT 5 10 15

BLACK 17 5 22

BLAINE 6 26 32

BLAIR 1 27 28

BOGAN HS 12 11 23

BOND 20 1 21

BOONE 45 6 51

BOUCHET 30 9 39

BOWEN HS 4 1 5

BRADWELL 7 16 23

BRENNEMANN 9 0 9

BRENTANO 21 4 25

BRIDGE 40 3 43

BRIGHT 16 3 19

BRIGHTON PARK 19 5 24

BRONZEVILLE CLASSICAL 5 3 8

BRONZEVILLE HS 6 1 7

BROOKS HS 24 7 31

BROWN R 8 12 20

BROWN W 14 5 19

BROWNELL 4 8 12

BRUNSON 19 8 27

BUDLONG 28 9 37

BURBANK 38 5 43

BURKE 19 2 21

BURLEY 27 2 29

BURNHAM 11 7 18

BURNSIDE 17 5 22

BURR 28 2 30

BURROUGHS 1 32 33

CALDWELL 11 6 17

CALMECA 15 1 16

CAMERON 39 3 42

CAMRAS 49 6 55

CANTY 15 13 28

CARDENAS 55 14 69

CARNEGIE 19 16 35

CARROLL 12 18 30

CARTER 2 5 7

CARVER MILITARY HS 13 5 18

CASALS 24 2 26

CASSELL 1 25 26

CHALMERS 11 2 13

CHAPPELL 24 17 41

CHASE 22 7 29

CHAVEZ 23 12 35

CHICAGO ACADEMY ES 37 0 37

CHICAGO ACADEMY HS 35 4 39

CHICAGO AGRICULTURE HS 9 36 45

CHICAGO MILITARY HS 15 5 20

Chicago Teachers Union 43 7 50

CHICAGO VOCATIONAL HS 15 11 26

CHOPIN 30 1 31

CHRISTOPHER 1 32 33

CICS - ELLISON HS 13 0 13

CICS - NORTHTOWN HS 60 2 62

CICS - WRIGHTWOOD 34 2 36

CLARK ES 1 1 2

CLARK HS 28 2 30

CLAY 35 3 38

CLEMENTE HS 41 4 45

CLEVELAND 38 1 39

CLINTON 32 3 35

CLISSOLD 5 26 31

COLEMON 5 11 16

COLLINS HS 14 0 14

COLUMBIA EXPLORERS 36 9 45

COOK 18 0 18

COOPER 22 2 24

CORKERY 25 2 27

COURTENAY 13 0 13

CRANE MEDICAL HS 20 6 26

CROWN 5 4 9

CUFFE 20 1 21

CULLEN 2 10 12

CURIE HS 63 74 137

CURTIS 13 0 13

DALEY 18 13 31

DARWIN 24 3 27

DAVIS M 11 1 12

DAVIS N 16 10 26

DAWES 0 56 56

DE DIEGO 2 39 41

DEPRIEST 21 3 24

DETT 8 1 9

DEVER 18 1 19

DEVRY HS 10 0 10

DEWEY 7 7 14

DIRKSEN 17 28 45

DISNEY 44 25 69

DISNEY II ES 28 8 36

DIXON 19 5 24

DOOLITTLE 10 5 15

DORE 3 32 35

DOUGLASS HS 5 6 11

DRAKE 18 1 19

DRUMMOND 14 7 21

DUBOIS 11 6 17

DULLES 16 18 34

DUNBAR HS 14 14 28

DUNNE 13 3 16

DURKIN PARK 3 26 29

DVORAK 23 2 25

EARHART 5 2 7

EBERHART 12 54 66

EBINGER 12 22 34

EDGEBROOK 16 10 26

EDISON 10 5 15

EDISON PARK 9 16 25

EDWARDS 79 11 90

ELLINGTON 12 21 33

ERICSON 19 4 23

Results of CTU election held May 17

Below is the report of school-by-school results as required by the CTU Constitution and By-Laws and

reported by the American Arbitration As-sociation (AAA), the outside agency that conducted the election. Please note that there are a number of schools for which no results are listed. According to AAA this was a result of either failure to receive a ballot box or an irregularity with the materials that were returned. Examples of irregularities include failure to include the voter signature list, votes recorded on sample ballots, etc. In some cases, schools with branches may have returned ballots for all branches in one box, instead of sep-arately, leaving other branches to appear void. Here is a summary of irregularities that caused votes to be voided:

NO RECORD OF BALLOT BOX BEING DELIVERED*

66602 - Acero-Brighton Park, 32081 - As-burn, 66351 - Aspira-Haugan, 26771 - Bel-mont-Cragin, 22791 - Columbus, 29081 - Franklin, 31121 - Hendricks, 23771 - Herzl, 26231 - Johnson, 53111 - Manley High School, 26091 - Morton, 31101 - Ni-nos Heros, 63071 - Urban Prep-West High School, 25791 - Webster, 55161 - Williams High School

SCHOOLS WITH NO VOTES RECORDED DUE TO MISSING OR BLANK SIGNATURE LISTS* **

22021 - Addams, 22091 - Audubon, 22101 - Avalon Park, 22501 - Byrne (Blank sig-nature list), 22621 - Carver G, 22771 - Coles, 22821 - Coonley, 22931 - Deneen, 23031 - Earle, 23211 - Field, 23351 - Ow-ens, 23391 - Graham ES, 23681 - Hedges, 23721 - Henderson (Blank signature list), 24301 - Madison, 24371 - Faraday, 24751 - O’Keeffe, 24991 - Ward L, 25191 - Ryder, 25521 - Stowe (Blank signature list), 25761 - Warren, 26021 - Cather, 26061 - Robin-son, 26251 - Mollison, 29031 - Decatur, 29161 - LaSalle, 29191 - Inter-American, 31161 - Lawndale, 31211 - Pulaski, 31251 - Higgins, 31301 - Claremont, 32021 - Hampton, 46421 - Juarez HS, 46681 - Dyett, 66255 - Aspira-Business & Fi-nance, 66399 - Acero-Idar

SCHOOLS THAT SENT VALID SIGNATURE SHEETS BUT INCORRECT (SAMPLE) OR NO BALLOTS* **

66651 - Chicago Quest Charter High School, 24741 - Oglesby Elem School, 46361 - Kenwood Acad. High School, 66191 - Passages Charter School, 22591 - Skinner North School , 46391 - Corliss High School, 23641 - Smith, W. Elem School, 22601 - Carson Elem School

** Valid votes for these schools may have been received by mail ballot.

** For schools that had votes reported, a sig-nature list may have been received but was not located post-election.

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ELECTION RESULTS ELECTION RESULTS

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ESMOND ELEM 8 12 20

EVERETT 0 9 9

EVERGREEN 21 2 23

EVERS 15 4 19

FAIRFIELD 13 3 16

FALCONER 37 18 55

FARNSWORTH 12 18 30

FARRAGUT HS 18 7 25

FENGER HS 20 2 22

FERNWOOD 11 6 17

FINKL 9 2 11

FISKE 26 2 28

FOREMAN HS 22 27 49

FORT DEARBORN 25 0 25

FOSTER PARK 4 7 11

FRANKLIN 18 1 19

FRAZIER 7 0 7

FULLER 11 3 14

FULTON 18 4 22

FUNSTON 20 5 25

GAGE PARK HS 14 7 21

GALE 8 0 8

GALILEO 11 18 29

GALLISTEL 24 21 45

GARVEY 2 13 15

GARVY 0 36 36

GARY 27 13 40

GILLESPIE 9 14 23

GOETHE 25 5 30

GOODE HS 33 12 45

GOUDY 27 13 40

GRAHAM HS 15 5 20

GRAY 54 7 61

GREELEY 38 2 40

GREEN 8 3 11

GREENE 8 18 26

GREGORY 9 9 18

GRESHAM 12 0 12

GRIMES 13 14 27

GRISSOM 13 6 19

GUNSAULUS 9 8 17

HAINES 13 16 29

HALE 4 50 54

HALEY 33 6 39

HAMILTON 32 1 33

HAMLINE 14 11 25

HAMMOND 18 7 25

HANCOCK HS 46 7 53

HANSON PARK 23 67 90

HARLAN HS 19 4 23

HARPER HS 12 1 13

HARTE 1 17 18

HARVARD 15 2 17

HAUGAN 23 11 34

HAWTHORNE 16 12 28

HAY 17 1 18

HAYT 42 2 44

HEALY 30 19 49

HEARST 18 6 24

HEFFERAN 21 0 21

HENRY 26 7 33

HERNANDEZ 29 25 54

HIBBARD 56 2 58

HIRSCH HS 4 3 7

HITCH 18 3 21

HOLDEN 4 19 23

HOLMES 9 0 9

HOPE HS 2 3 5

HOWE 3 2 5

HOYNE 5 8 13

HUBBARD HS 23 73 96

HUGHES C 18 1 19

HUGHES L 8 15 23

HURLEY 20 9 29

HYDE PARK HS 51 4 55

INFINITY 13 12 25

INSTITUTO - HEALTH 52 1 53

INSTITUTO - LOZANO HS 9 0 9

IRVING 25 1 26

JACKSON A 19 14 33

JACKSON M 22 1 23

JAHN 24 4 28

JAMIESON 23 10 33

JEFFERSON HS 22 26 48

JENSEN 18 0 18

JONES HS 49 10 59

JOPLIN 19 3 22

JORDAN 22 5 27

JULIAN HS 24 4 28

JUNGMAN 16 9 25

KANOON 35 6 41

KELLER 3 13 16

KELLMAN 14 4 18

KELLOGG 3 13 16

KELLY HS 58 42 100

KELVYN PARK HS 16 11 27

KENNEDY HS 19 75 94

KERSHAW 17 3 20

KILMER 42 2 44

KING ES 13 3 16

KING HS 33 3 36

KINZIE 21 31 52

KIPLING 14 4 18

KOZMINSKI 17 1 18

LAKE VIEW HS 33 14 47

LANE TECH HS 84 63 147

LANGFORD 5 3 8

LARA 6 23 29

LASALLE II 29 4 33

LAVIZZO 18 4 22

LEE 3 46 49

LELAND 21 2 23

LENART 15 0 15

LEWIS 24 2 26

LIBBY 8 2 10

LINCOLN 31 6 37

LINCOLN PARK HS 52 10 62

LINDBLOM HS 61 5 66

LITTLE VILLAGE 19 5 24

LLOYD 43 4 47

LOCKE J 22 36 58

LORCA 34 5 39

LOVETT 16 0 16

LOWELL 27 0 27

LOZANO 18 2 20

LYON 63 9 72

MADERO 9 10 19

Mail 105 284 389

MANIERRE 8 1 9

MANN 22 5 27MARINE LEADERSHIP AT AMES HS 15 32 47

MARQUETTE 43 4 47

MARSH 26 13 39

MARSHALL HS 24 2 26

MASON 9 10 19

MATHER HS 61 12 73

MAYS 1 19 20

MCAULIFFE 11 23 34

MCCLELLAN 5 20 25

MCCORMICK 23 10 33

MCCUTCHEON 21 11 32

MCDADE 9 0 9

MCDOWELL 6 7 13

MCKAY 21 15 36

MCNAIR 13 5 18

MCPHERSON 20 25 45

MELODY 15 20 35

METCALFE 15 8 23

MIRELES 18 7 25

MITCHELL 15 4 19

MONROE 39 8 47

MOOS 25 1 26

MORGAN PARK HS 46 19 65

MORRILL 17 9 26

MORTON 4 5 9

MOUNT GREENWOOD 3 55 58

MOUNT VERNON 5 9 14

MOZART 37 5 42

MULTICULTURAL HS 16 1 17

MURPHY 29 5 34

MURRAY 22 5 27

NASH 15 3 18

NATIONAL TEACHERS 11 12 23

NEIL 9 14 23

NETTELHORST 22 16 38

NEW FIELD 27 10 37

NEW SULLIVAN 11 18 29

NEWBERRY 21 11 32

NICHOLSON 20 0 20

NIGHTINGALE 20 46 66

NIXON 41 3 44

NOBEL 29 6 35

NORTH RIVER 7 13 20

NORTH-GRAND HS 37 6 43

NORTHSIDE LEARNING HS 28 4 32

NORTHSIDE PREP HS 51 4 55

NORTHWEST 11 16 27

NORWOOD PARK 12 5 17

OGDEN SCH 53 8 61

OGDEN ES 22 7 29

ONAHAN 4 36 40

ORIOLE PARK 32 4 36

OROZCO 6 4 10

ORR HS 11 4 15

ORTIZ DE DOMINGUEZ 26 3 29

Other 5 2 7

OTIS 28 3 31

OTOOLE 19 2 21

OWEN 7 10 17

PALMER 31 8 39

PARK MANOR 17 0 17

PARKER 11 9 20

PARKSIDE 8 2 10

PASTEUR 12 18 30

PAYTON HS 46 6 52

PEACE - ED 1 1 2

PECK 27 33 60

PEIRCE 47 3 50

PENN 21 1 22

PEREZ 10 11 21

PERSHING 19 2 21

PETERSON 29 14 43

PHILLIPS HS 13 17 30

PHOENIX MILITARY HS 17 3 20

PICCOLO 27 1 28

PICKARD 19 9 28

PILSEN 26 0 26

PIRIE 10 3 13

PLAMONDON 5 4 9

POE 2 11 13

PORTAGE PARK 42 6 48

POWELL 13 5 18

PRESCOTT 24 4 28

PRIETO 49 3 52

PRITZKER 20 5 25

PROSSER HS 50 15 65

PRUSSING 30 8 38

PULLMAN 26 1 27

RABY HS 3 0 3

RANDOLPH 18 8 26

RAVENSWOOD 31 3 34

RAY 29 7 36

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REAVIS 7 2 9

REILLY 26 13 39

REINBERG 21 12 33

REVERE 4 6 10

RICHARDS HS 12 10 22

RICHARDSON 27 29 56

RICKOVER MILITARY HS 4 23 27

ROGERS 28 0 28

ROOSEVELT HS 23 24 47

RUDOLPH 3 14 17

RUGGLES 4 18 22

RUIZ 32 5 37

SABIN 16 6 22

SALAZAR 16 6 22

SANDOVAL 31 18 49

SAUCEDO 34 11 45

SAUGANASH 5 17 22

SAWYER 26 29 55

SAYRE 11 18 29

SCAMMON 21 9 30

SCHMID 2 11 13

SCHUBERT 27 22 49

SCHURZ HS 24 78 102

SENN HS 67 19 86

SEWARD 15 17 32

SHERIDAN 32 3 35

SHERMAN 10 8 18

SHERWOOD 23 2 25

SHIELDS 22 17 39

SHIELDS MIDDLE 2 32 34

SHOESMITH 7 1 8

SHOOP 18 5 23

SIMEON HS 23 3 26

SIMPSON HS 6 2 8

SKINNER 27 13 40

SMYSER 5 24 29

SMYTH 7 20 27

SOCIAL JUSTICE HS 11 1 12

SOLOMON 28 1 29

SOLORIO HS 37 21 58

SOR JUANA 7 5 12

SOUTH LOOP 28 12 40

SOUTH SHORE ES 7 2 9

SOUTH SHORE INTL HS 35 9 44

SOUTHEAST 17 13 30

SOUTHSIDE HS 17 11 28

SPENCER 16 11 27

SPRY ES 33 3 36

SPRY HS 11 1 12

STAGG 2 17 19

STEINMETZ HS 33 21 54

STEM 9 7 16

STEVENSON 4 61 65

STOCK 13 10 23

STONE 12 8 20

SUDER 27 6 33

SULLIVAN HS 23 13 36

SUMNER 13 7 20

SUTHERLAND 5 31 36

SWIFT 28 10 38

TAFT HS 104 28 132

TALCOTT 25 4 29

TALMAN 8 19 27

TANNER 17 5 22

TARKINGTON 14 17 31

TAYLOR 3 16 19

TELPOCHCALLI 23 0 23

THOMAS 16 2 18

THORP J 21 2 23

THORP O 9 18 27

TILDEN HS 8 6 14

TILL 3 8 11

TILTON 19 0 19

TONTI 5 28 33

TURNER-DREW 6 11 17

TWAIN 5 60 65

UPLIFT HS 15 5 20URBAN PREP - BRONZEVILLE HS 3 0 3URBAN PREP - ENGLEWOOD HS 0 3 3

VANDERPOEL 14 4 18

VAUGHN HS 14 6 20

VICK 7 18 25

VOLTA 29 1 30

VON LINNE 34 5 39

VON STEUBEN HS 57 9 66

WACKER 10 7 17

WADSWORTH 21 4 25

WALSH 8 12 20

WARD J 24 3 27

WASHINGTON G ES 23 17 40

WASHINGTON H ES 20 0 20

WASHINGTON HS 16 43 59

WATERS 22 3 25

WELLS ES 4 1 5

WELLS HS 13 0 13

WENTWORTH 2 22 24

WEST PARK 16 1 17

WEST RIDGE 36 4 40

WESTCOTT 18 4 22

WESTINGHOUSE HS 45 14 59

WHISTLER 13 7 20

WHITE 5 2 7

WHITNEY 27 13 40

WHITTIER 17 1 18

WILDWOOD 4 9 13

WOODLAWN 6 5 11

WOODSON 14 4 18

WORLD LANGUAGE HS 18 3 21

YATES 21 1 22

YCCS - ASPIRA PANTOJA 11 0 11

YCCS - LATINO YOUTH 10 0 10YCCS - YOUTH CONNECTION 7 0 7

YORK HS 29 1 30

YOUNG ES 36 0 36

YOUNG HS 81 19 100

ZAPATA 31 6 37

TOTAL RESULTS BY CANDIDATE

Candidate/SlateVote Total

Vote %

SLATE

CAUCUS OF RANK-AND-FILE EDUCATORS (CORE) 9565 66%

MEMBERS FIRST 4840 34%

Total 14405  

     

PRESIDENT

JESSE SHARKEY 9897 66%

THERESE BOYLE 5090 34%

Total 14987  

     

VICE PRESIDENT

STACY DAVIS GATES 9894 66%

VICTOR OCHOA 5077 34%

Total 14971  

     

RECORDING SECRETARY

CHRISTEL WILLIAMS HAYES 9833 66%

DEBORAH YAKER 5094 34%

Total 14927  

     

FINANCIAL SECRETARY

MARIA T. MORENO 9832 66%

SHARON DAVIS 5112 34%

Total 14944  

     

TRUSTEES

NANCY SERRANO 9853 11%

JAMES CAVALLERO 9834 11%

MICHELLE GUNDERSON 9834 11%

LOIS ASHFORD 9832 11%

JACKSON POTTER 9827 11%

TAMMIE VINSON 9814 11%

KIMBERLY LUHAN SAUCEDO 5058 6%

DAVID ARREDONDO 5053 6%

BRANDON BARR 5052 6%

TANYA SAUNDERS-WOLFFE 5047 6%

THERESA HEHN 5046 6%

THERESA TORO 5042 6%

Total 89292  

     

AREA A VICE PRESIDENT

SARAH CHAMBERS 9861 66%

GREGG MITCHELL 5060 34%

Total 14921  

     

AREA B VICE PRESIDENT

ALEXANDRA GONZALEZ 9853 66%

KELLY MCFARLANE 5069 34%

Total 14922  

     

AREA C VICE PRESIDENT

ANDREW HEISERMAN 9838 66%

CARLA FRANGELLA 5073 34%

Total 14911  

     

SCHOOL CLERKS FUNCTIONAL VP

LUCILLE THOMPSON 297 65%

MARIA SOTO 161 35%

Total 458  

     

ELEMENTARY FUNCTIONAL VP

CARRENE BEVERLY BASS 6218 5%

NATASHA L. CARLSEN 6212 5%

JHOANNA MALDONADO 6210 5%

LINDA PERALEZ 6209 5%

JOSHUA LERNER 6209 5%

ANDREA PARKER 6208 5%

QUENTIN WASHINGTON 6205 5%

XIAN FRANZINGER BARRETT 6200 5%

KATIE OSGOOD 6198 5%

ARATHI JAYARAM 6196 5%

NICHOLAS LIMBECK 6195 5%

TARA STAMPS 6194 5%

MOSELEAN PARKER 6193 5%

CAPRICE PHILIPS-MITCHELL 6191 5%

SUE SEBESTA 6190 5%

JOHN BEMBENEK 3162 2%

JOSEFINA OTERO 3162 2%

MICHAEL HILL 3161 2%

ALIXA RODRIGUEZ 3161 2%

COLLEEN KHANI 3160 2%

DAWN RUFF 3160 2%

THERESA DAVIS COWAN 3157 2%

BELINDA MCKINNEY 3156 2%

KAREN JACKEL 3156 2%

VICTORIA FERRO SCHOENCO 3155 2%

PATRICIA WAGNER 3154 2%

SUSAN ZUPAN 3152 2%

ANDRE POELLINETZ 3149 2%

KATHLEEN VAULMAN 3144 2%

Total 137217  

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ELECTION RESULTS ELECTION RESULTS

 Candidate/SlateVote Total 

Vote % 

HIGH SCHOOL FUNCTIONAL VP

CRISTEN CHAPMAN 2406 15%

ALISON EICHHORN 2405 15%

LILLIAN KASS 2405 15%

ROBERT PINCHAM 2392 15%

KENZO SHIBATA 2391 15%

FRANCIS MACDONALD 1028 6%

ANN MAEDA 1018 6%

DARREN HARLSTON 1017 6%

YANKO JORDANOF 1011 6%

Total 16073  

PHYSICAL THERAPISTS FUNCTIONAL VP

MARY ESPOSITO-USTER-BOWSKI 186 73%

EMILY PENN 70 27%

Total 256  

CERTIFIED SCHOOL NURSES FUNCTIONAL VP

BETH EYSENBACH 144 73%

DENNIS KOSUTH 53 27%

Total 197  

     

SCHOOL ASSISTANT I FUNCTIONAL VP

SUSAN ABBINANTE 115 100%

Total 115  

     

SCHOOL ASSISTANT II FUNCTIONAL VP

MARIA RODMAN 83 100%

Total 83  

     

BILINGUAL FUNCTIONAL VP

KIMBERLY WATSON 218 72%

ROGER JOHNSON 84 28%

Total 302  

     

SPECIAL EDUCATION FUNCTIONAL VP

YVONNE HEARD 154 61%

MARINA VAZQUEZ 100 39%

Total 254  

DELEGATESVote Total Rank

LOIS ASHFORD 9689 1 

SARAH CHAMBERS 9685 2

JESSE SHARKEY 9683 3 

MICHAEL BRUNSON 9680 4 

STACY DAVIS GATES 9680 5 

JOHN KUGLER 9680 6

MARIA T. MORENO 9674 7

JACKSON POTTER 9673 8

JENNIFER JOHNSON 9672 9 

KAREN G.J. LEWIS 9671 10 

JOSEPH MCDERMOTT 9670 11 

BERNIE ESHOO 9667 12 

KAREN SOTO 9663 13 

TARA STAMPS 9659 14 

JACQUELYN WARD 9657 15 

SARA ECHEVARRIA 9654 16 

SUE SEBESTA 9653 17 

JAMES CAVALLERO 9651 18 

WILLIE M. COUSINS 9651 19 

TRACY BARRIENTOS 9650 20 

ALEXANDRA GONZALEZ 9649 21 

MICHELLE GUNDERSON 9649 22 

KIMBERLY GOLDBAUM 9649 23 

ERIN FRANZINGER BARRETT 9648 24 

XIAN FRANZINGER BARRETT 9648 25 

ANDREW CROOKS 9648 26 

CARRENE BEVERLY-BASS 9648 27 

STEPHANIE COLLINS 9648 28 

CHRISTOPHER BAEHREND 9647 29 

DAVID HERNANDEZ 9647 30 

JOSE JIMENEZ 9647 31 

MARLENA CEBALLOS 9647 32

LATONYA BULLOCK 9647 33 

LILLIAN KASS 9646 34 

CRISTEN CHAPMAN 9646 35

PATRICIA BOUGHTON 9646 36 

TAMICA BERRY 9646 37 

JOHN LEWIS 9646 38 

BRIDGETT DOHERTY TREBING 9645 39 

ANDREW HEISERMAN 9645 40 

PATRICIA A. KNAZZE 9645 41 

NATASHA CARLSEN 9645 42 

NORINE GUTEKANST 9645 43 

PATRICIA JONES 9645 44 

YVONNE HEARD 9645 45 

ERIN YOUNG 9644 46 

NATHAN GOLDBAUM 9644 47 

QUENTIN WASHINGTON 9644 48 

SHELLEY ECKERMAN 9644 49 

FRANCINE GREENBERG-REIZEN 9644 50 

MARCO CAMACHO 9644 51 

ALISON EICHHORN 9643 52 

TINA PADILLA 9643 53 

CHARLOTTE BRENT 9643 54 

CAROL CAREF 9643 55 

GERVAISE CLAY 9643 56 

HOWARD HEATH 9643 57 

ZEIDRE FOSTER 9643 58 

BURMA GREEN 9643 59 

JENNIFER CONANT 9643 60 

GEORGE MILKOWSKI 9642 61 

LOIS NELSON 9642 62 

ELIJAH EILER 9642 63 

CATHALINE CARTER 9642 64 

ELIZABETH GONZALEZ 9642 65 

RICHARD BERG 9642 66 

JENNIFER KLONSKY 9642 67 

CLAIRE FALK 9641 68 

TENNILLE EVANS 9641 69 

SHERRI DABNEY-PARKER 9641 70 

ANTHONY CAPPETTA 9641 71 

JHOANNA MALDONADO 9641 72 

WILLIAM LAMME 9641 73 

EMILY PENN 9640 74 

NIDIA CARRANZA 9640 75 

GEORGIA WALLER 9640 76 

GLORIA E. HIGGINS 9640 77 

ROBERT HEISE 9640 78 

RHONDA BEROW 9640 79 

TIERNEY A. DUFFY 9640 80 

IDA HATHAWAY 9640 81 

ANDREA PARKER 9639 82 

MIHIR GARUD 9639 83 

BEATRICE LUMPKIN 9639 84 

TONYA DOSS 9639 85 

GEORGIA MAYBERRY 9638 86 

KENZO SHIBATA 9638 87 

LAWRENCE MILKOWSKI 9638 88 

CATHLEEN MARTIN 9638 89 

THERESA D. DANIELS 9638 90 

GLORY MARGOTTE 9638 91 

KATIE OSGOOD 9638 92 

KATHLEEN MURRAY 9638 93 

MIGUEL GUEVARA 9638 94 

JAMES STEWART 9638 95 

ROBERT C. MASLANKA 9637 96 

LUCY MCGOWAN 9637 97 

ERICKA JENKINS 9637 98 

RAYMOND WOHL 9636 99 

MARGO MURRAY 9636 100 

NANCY SERRANO 9636 101 

ROLANDO VAZQUEZ 9636 102 

SABRINA WOODS 9636 103 

BESS KUCHENBECKER 9636 104 

JESUS SANCHEZ 9636 105 

ROBERT PINCHAM 9635 106 

ARATHI JAYARAM 9635 107 

TAMMIE VINSON 9635 108 

GLORIA MHOON 9635 109 

LISA PATTARA-MCGRANE 9635 110 

MOSELEAN PARKER 9634 111 

CHRISTEL WILLIAMS-HAYES 9634 112 

OSCAR ORTIZ 9634 113 

CAPRICE MITCHELL 9634 114 

MAKEESHA MCLAURIN 9634 115 

DANIEL VANOVER 9633 116 

LASHAWN WALLACE 9633 117 

QUEEN WEINER 9633 118 

VANESSA SAUCEDO 9633 119 

LUCILLE THOMPSON 9633 120 

DEBORAH A. POPE 9632 121 

GABRIEL SHERIDAN 9632 122

DENNIS KOSUTH 9632 123 

VICTORIA ROSARIO 9632 124 

ALBERT RAMIREZ 9631 125 

TONI MINTER 9631 126 

MELISSA VOZAR 9631 127 

DAVID ROBBINS 9630 128 

PILAR MORENO 9630 129 

NICHOLAS LIMBECK 9630 130 

LEANDRES WHITE 9630 131

LINDA PERALES 9630 132 

NORA WILTSE 9630 133 

NATASHA ROBINSON 9629 134 

CHARLOTTE SANDERS 9628 135 

DRUNITA STEWARD 9628 136 

ALEXANDER ROLNICK 9628 137 

HELEN RAMIREZ ODELL 9628 138 

JACK SILVER 9627 139 

CAROLINE RUTHERFORD 9627 140 

JAMES D. STAROS 9627 141 

GREGORY REDFEARIN 9626 142 

LEONOR TORRES 9626 143 

MARILYN PIGGEE 9626 144 

MICHAEL SMITH 9626 145 

MIRIAM SOCOLOFF 9624 146 

SHELLI SHADDAY 9622 147 

THERESE BOYLE 4962 148 

VICTOR OCHOA 4934 149 

DIANE BLASZCYK 4933 150 

DAVE ARREDONDO 4927  

SHARON DAVIS 4919  

KARYN AGUIRRE 4919  

LORETTA BALSAM 4916  

BRANDON BARR 4915  

THERESA HEHN 4913  

CLAIRE BOYLE 4912  

TRACI COBB-EVANS 4911  

ANN CLEARY 4911  

CARLA FRANGELLA 4910  

KATHLEEN CAREY 4910  

JOHN HEFFERNAN 4910  

MARY CARMODY 4910  

MARY ESPOSITO- USTERBOWSKI 4909  

JULIANNE BURKE 4909  

KELLY MCFARLANE 4909  

MARIA SOTO 4909  

JULIE BURKE 4909  

MARY CLAIRE BRADY 4909  

SUSAN HICKEY 4908  

NANCY FINN 4908  

KIMBERLY CARTER 4908  

JULIE DETINEO 4908  

MAUREEN DOOEY 4908  

DEBRA DANDELES 4907  

LINDA CHRISTIAN 4907  

CAROLINA JUAREZ-HILL 4907  

ANNE DIXON 4907  

JOHN BEMBENEK 4907  

MICHAEL HILL 4907  

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ELECTION RESULTS

DELEGATESVote Total Rank

LOLITA HARDIMAN 4907  

MARY SUE BUTLER 4907  

ERIN HARRIGAN-SCHOBER 4906  

PATTI JACKSON 4906  

KELLY BLAHA 4906  

LASHONNE HENDERSON 4906  

LAURIE DRUCKER 4906  

DIANNE FIEDLER 4906  

DARREN HARLSTON 4906  

ROSELIND FAULKNER 4906  

KARLA GRAP 4906  

JO-ANNE CAIRO 4906  

MIGDALIA HINOJOSA 4906  

LINDA KELLY 4905  

DARLENE FERGUSON 4905  

PAULETTE CESARIO 4905  

ALIXA RODRIGUEZ 4905  

BETH EYSENBACH 4905  

HOLLY BENNETT 4905  

JAMES GNIADEK 4905  

KAREN JACKEL 4905  

DIANE GAMMONLEY 4904  

CATHERINE BRADY 4904  

MICHAEL FINNEY 4904  

MARK OCHOA 4904  

DAVID RODRIGUEZ 4904  

COLLEEN KHANI 4904  

ALLAN CUPICCIOTTI 4904  

BRENDA HOWELL 4904  

AURA BRICKLER 4904  

SUSAN COLCLASURE 4904  

MARVIN IRIZARRY 4904  

THERESA DAVIS COWAN 4903  

YANKO JORDANOF 4903  

COLLEEN DYKAS 4903  

NICHOLAS LANG 4903  

ROGER JOHNSON 4903  

SUSAN JONCHA 4903  

SARAH LOFTUS 4903  

JEREECE BROWN-SUTTON 4903  

JASMINE VEGA 4902  

GREGG MITCHELL 4902  

JENNIFER KRZAK 4902  

KATHLEEN CLEARY POWERS 4902  

THERESA TORO 4901  

RUSSEL TRACY 4901  

TANYA SAUNDERS-WOLFFE 4901  

KIMBERLY LUHAN SAUCEDO 4901  

DEBORAH YAKER 4901  

CAROLYN CURTIN 4901  

JAMES SHELTON 4901  

LEROY MAGALLANES 4901  

JOSEFINA OTERO 4901  

MAURA ESCHERICH 4901  

DAWN RUFF 4900  

DENISE RACKY 4900  

FRANCIS MACDONALD 4900  

ELLA LEMBERIS 4899  

OLIVIA SCOTT 4899  

ANGELA PALMER-HOLMES 4899  

BELINDA MCKINNEY 4899  

TANYA GAUGHAN 4899  

LOUIS PYSTER 4899  

DANIEL LUNDAK 4899  

REGINA O’CONNOR 4898  

SEAN MURPHY 4898  

SHERESA MATTHEWS 4898  

SUSAN ZUPAN 4898  

KATHLEEN O’CONNELL MORGAN 4898  

ANGELA SUMMERS 4898  

SARAH MCGRATH 4898  

ERIN MURPHY 4897  

DIANA TORRES 4897  

EILEEN TENISON 4897  

ANDRE POELLINETZ 4897  

JANE RANDOLPH 4897  

KATHLEEN SULLIVAN 4897  

MARINA VAZQUEZ 4897  

VICTORIA MOLINA 4897  

ANGELICA NYBERG POP 4896  

SUSAN SHAUGHNESSY 4896  

SHEILA MCDERMOTT 4896  

SHARON STAMPS 4896  

VERONICA SHACKELFORD 4896  

LAURA SIERRA 4896  

JOHN SURWILLO 4896  

ANN MAEDA 4896  

JERI SPARKS 4895  

CHARLOTTE MOORE-SPENCER 4894  

PATRICIA WAGNER 4894  

NANCY MCAULIFF 4894  

ANITA WALSH 4894  

GERALD PARKINSON 4894  

KEYRA SANTAMARIA 4894  

JUANITA SMITH 4894  

MICHELLE JOHNSON STIBICH 4894  

MELISSA URBON 4894  

DANIEL ZOLLER 4893  

MICHAEL SMILES 4893  

CATHERINE SHULA 4893  

LATANYA WATERS 4893  

MEGHAN MULRYAN 4893  

VICTORIA FERRO SCHOEN 4893  

EDNA OTERO 4892  

NICOLE VEAZEY 4892  

AGNES VOGELSINGER 4892  

KAREN MOODY-WIEZIEN 4892  

LISA ZOCCOLI 4892  

REINA OTERO 4892  

BERNADETTE NELSON 4891  

KATHLEEN VAULMAN 4891  

MARGARET O’MALLEY 4891  

MICHAEL NOTIDES 4889  

MEREDITH NICHOLS 4886  

ALTERNATE DELEGATESVote Total Rank

SABA COSTELLO 9663 1

JAMILLAH ALI 9652 2

DENITA ARMSTRONG-SHAFF`ER 9648 3 

MARY EDMONDS 9647 4 

SOPHIE BRADDOCK 9646 5 

LYDIA CLARK 9646 6 

JOSEPH DUNLAP 9645 7 

CATHY CUNNINGHAM-YEE 9644 8 

BEVERLY ALLEBACH 9644 9 

CHRISTINE DUSSAULT 9644 10 

MEGAN CALHOUN 9644 11 

PHILLIP CANTOR 9644 12 

LETICIA GUTIERREZ 9643 13 

MARY DIFINO 9643 14 

MARYBETH FOLEY 9642 15 

ROXANA GONZALEZ 9642 16 

ALLISON EPSTEIN-MIRANDA 9641 17 

MAXIMILIAN COLE 9640 18 

BARBARA J. GIBSON 9639 19 

JENNIFER GRANDFIELD 9639 20 

KURT HILGENDORF 9637 21 

JOEL MUNOZ 9635 22 

JOSEPH KURSTIN 9635 23 

JOSHUA LERNER 9635 24 

ERIC STACKHOUSE 9634 25 

RHONDA MCLEOD 9634 26 

KASSANDRA TSITSOPOULOS 9633 27 

KEVIN TRIPLETT 9633 28 

CINDY ZUCKER 9632 29 

SAMANTHA WILLIAMS 9632 30 

JESSICA SUAREZ-NIETO 9632 31 

DUSTIN VOSS 9631 32 

JAIME SERRANO 9631 33 

LENEDRA VAUGHN 9630 34 

FRANK MENZIES 9630 35 

RICHARD MONTALVO 9630 36 

SARA SAYIGH 9630 37 

DAN WEBER 9629 38 

JONATHAN WILSON 9629 39 

JACKIE TRAVIS 9629 40 

LAUREN LUCCHESI 9628 41 

NORMA NORIEGA 9628 42 

LINDA ZAIA 9627 43 

MEGAN BIGANE 4906 44 

RHONDA STONE 4905 45 

MARY CARROLL 4904 46 

JANNET VEGA 4904 47 

ESMERALDA VELASCO 4904 48 

AVA DAVIS 4904 49 

BEVERLY CLANCY 4903 50 

BRENDA BOUQUET 4903  

JACQUELINE RAMIREZ 4902  

SANDRA GUTIERREZ 4902  

CHRISTINA DEGIULIO 4901  

PRECIOUS PORTER 4900  

COLLEEN REYNOLDS 4900  

JOANNA CALANDRIELLO 4900  

MELISSA CAREY 4900  

ERIN JOHNSON 4899  

JULIE FITZPATRICK 4899  

MOLLY CONDON 4899  

ESTELA DEL REAL-CARREON 4898  

ALICIA GORDON 4897  

RENIYA BROWN-SHAREEF 4897  

PATRICIA ROHAN 4897  

CARMEN GARCIA 4897  

ANITA MALPICA 4897  

NICOLE REILLY 4896  

MATTHEW KNIGHT 4896  

NICOLE DONNELLY 4896  

KATHERINE SCHMITZ 4896  

KENNETH STYLER 4896  

CYNTHIA POPE 4895  

EILEEN LUZIN 4895  

SHEILA A. MCCARTHY 4895  

JULIE GIBBONS 4895  

CARRIE KOSTKA 4895  

RICHARD LUZIN 4894  

AUDREY PARSLEY 4893  

AMY HUGHES 4893  

KATIE MCALINDEN 4893  

JULIE MEYERS 4892  

EZEH JUDEH 4892  

AMANI GHUSEN 4892  

BETH MCCLORY 4892  

STEVEN MEYERS 4891  

ERIN HEINTZ 4890  

JULIE GANDURSKI 4890  

House of Delegates Meeting ∕ Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Delegates not present: NETWORK 1A Brennan, Jennifer L.; Green, Laurie J.; McNulty, Scott T.; Spagnola, Patricia A. ∕ NETWORK 1B Cooley, Amy K.; Karpa, Kevin M.; Perez, Stacy L.; Werner, Gary M. ∕ NETWORK 1C Dillon, Barbara K.; George, Eric C.; Nickels, Margaret C.; O’Donnell, James M. ∕ NETWORK 2A Askounis, Katherine G.; Bachemin, Eugiene A.; Gladney, Maxine; Kitchka, Melissa E.; Lancaster, Elizabeth R.; Rodriguez, Natalie M.; Wynn, Kathryn E. ∕ NETWORK 2B Hernandez, Wilson; Lerner, Joshua D.; Pedersen, Christian E. ∕ NETWORK 3A Arroyo, Judith ∕ NETWORK 3B Anderson, Grace A.; Pittman, Sylvelia I.; Poole, Alethea; Van Lear, Heather A. ∕ NETWORK 4A Bennett-Stanley, Marlene K.; Bruehl, Steven C.; Ryan, Phyllis A.; Zoldan, Sara R. ∕ ∕ NETWORK 4B Baker, Jessica A.; Jensen, Alexander P.; Schroeder, Zach ∕ NETWORK 4C Manata, Amy K. ∕ NEWORK 5A Gaiser, Jacqueline M.; Greco-Serwa, Sandra M.; James, Donella M. ∕ NETWORK 5B Claiborne, Kisha L.; Georgopoulos, Stella S.; Jasutis, Susan M.; Thrash, Rasheeda M.; Watson, Joyce; Williams, Lekisch M. ∕ NETWORK 6A Lynch, Daniel G.; Strum, Melissa; Sweeney,

Jonathan M.; Williams, Carolyn S. ∕ NETWORK 6B Carlson, Julie A.; Foust, Randi L.; Sicora, Cristina R.; Vazquez, Brian ∕ NETWORK 7A Rentz, Kathleen M. ∕ NETWORK 7B Ceballos, Marlena; Kampton, Katherine M.; Kniff, Jennifer; Peralta, Alfredo; Zygowicz, Debra S. ∕ NETWORK 8A Carapia, Yesenia R.; Cleve, Craig A.; Crall, Patrick; Matuska, Lisa M.; McGrath, Sarah C.; Spyer, Lara ∕ ∕ NETWORK 8B Banasiak, Sally A.; Magallanes, Lucero ∕ NETWORK 9A Smith, Tara Y. ∕ NETWORK 9B Horton, Kawana T.; Olson, Genni L. ∕ NETWORK 10A Boyle, Amanda K.; Dillon, Colum J.; Dooey, Maureen P.; Horn, Jennifer M.; McLaurin, Makeesha D.; O’Malley, Margaret M.; Scollard, Ashley L. ∕ NETWORK 10B Acevedo, Arielle D.; Creech, Matthew; Kelly, Laura M.; Linehan, Joseph A.; McDevitt, Julie A.; Mirkiewicz, Brittany E.; Zachary, Terri L. ∕ NETWORK 10C Gagner, Louis T.; O’Connor, Elizabeth A.; Rhodes, Derrick; Spangler, Jessica; Vinezeano, Michele T. ∕ NETWORK 11A Chatman-Walls, Carolyn D.; Cleary, Anne T.; Eigenbrode, Jonathan; Henderson, Theresa M.; Walls-Kirk, Kimberly A. ∕ NETWORK 11B Clay, Jamila K.; Harte, Brianna; Holmes, Davina; Washington, Danielle R. ∕ NETWORK 11C Davis, Victoria M.; Tully, Caitlin S.; Williams, Samantha ∕ NETWORK 12A Cade, Shannon L.; Carter, Cozette T.; Carter, Launder F.;

Crockett, Nicole M.; Long, Jacqueline L.; McElmurry, Gwendolyn M.; Pineda, Leticia A.; Robinson, Chaunte E.; Simpson, Allyson L. ∕ NETWORK 12B Bell, Wilma Z.; Cosley, Rondra M.; Johnson, Tequila; Kidd, Tracey Y.; Kile, Carmen L.; Thigpen, Sondra D. ∕ NETWORK 13A Bobo, Jennifer L.; Davis, Joyce R.; Grant, Lorrie A.; Mason, James J.; Melton, Wilene M. ∕ NETWORK 13B Carrethers, Loreal S.; Fattore, Maribeth A.; Janacek, Gregory; King, Latia M.; Lee, Tyrone T.; McKinney, LaConya; Roberson, Danielle B.; Stepek, Suzanne M. ∕ NETWORK 14 Marshall, David M.; Maslanka, Robert C.; Mead, Thomas C.; Mihoc, Georgian; Palomino Villamonte, Walter; Rittmeyer, Robert W.; Roberts-Duarte, Samuel; Vanover, Daniel L.; Ward, Anne C.; Wittenwyler, Brian D. ∕ NETWORK 15 Banda, Stephen; Ford-France, Phyllis Y.; Harris, Stephanie J.; Renteria, Rita; Roberson, Gerald A.; Robinovitz, Isaac W.; Rodriguez, Jennifer ∕ NETWORK 16 Alicea, Anita Y.; Byrnes, Christopher M.; Caponigri, Rocky S.; Cover, Marc E.; Daniels, Rochelle L.; Druckmiller, Hannah; Garcia Hermida, Katina V.; Hershey, Edward F.; Knowles-West, Kristine E.; Ma, Amy; Mathews, De’Meica ∕ NETWORK 17 Collins, Darrin A.; Collins, Sarah J.; Davenport, Adam; Nichols-Sweat, Shari A.; Pincham, Robert E.; Platt, Mallory D.; Riouse, Nicole D.; Styler, Kenneth D. ∕ AUSL SOUTH

Chan-McShane, Joann L.; Jarrell, Ashley N.; Pardo, Jonathan M.; Voss, Erma; Wade, Michelle N. ∕ AUSL WEST Egwuekwe Maxey, Kelechi S.; Herod-Purham, Sharon D. ∕ CITY-WIDE CAREER SERVICE Ayala, Rosa B.; Brackenridge, Darrell G.; Butler, Deborah; Campbell, Jacqueline E.; Catledge, Lisa A.; Coty, Sharon; Garcia, Bethsaida; Gonzalez, Maria A.; Henry, Kimberly; Johnson-Harper, Luwanda; Jordan, Sherry; Riesco, Julieta; Schmidt, Kathryn R.; Smith, Shakita; Trice, Jeanine; Vaughn, Lanedra J.; Watts, Bessie M.; Williams, Robert L. ∕ CITY-WIDE Benna, Bell L.; Braddock, Corey D.; Brent, Charlotte; Carter, Cathaline G.; Christensen, William E.; Cochrane, Christine M.; Green, Burma S.; Gruodis, Paul J.; Jones, Patricia A.; Schechtman, Judith B.; Schecter, Jeff M.; Temkin, David W.; Walsh, Anita M. ∕ CTUA1 Byrnes, Megan S.; Chrystal, Erica; Crooks, Andrew M.; Fosses, Vasiliki I.; Horwitz, Michelle R.; Jones, Sarah C.; Loafmann, Paul R.; Poracky-Weir, Rachel A.; Rouke, Bethany K.; Staples, Bradley; Thomas, Meghan B.; Wax Trost, Joanna ∕ CTUA2 Brooks, James; Ferri, Enrico G.; Hale, David M.; Hicks, Mona F.; Holmes, Jr., Claude; Martinez, Marines; Michael, Nicholas; Nisbet, Thomas M.; Olufs, Kaitlin; Robinson, Natasha; Rodriguez, Tlaloc; Schmidt, Katie; Tolentino, Juan; Wallek, Bradley J.; Zaia, Linda

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In memoriam 2019

February 16 Mitchell McBride, Cook County Jail

February 28 Erwin W. Pollack, Burbank

March 1 Claudine C. Roy, Woodson South

March 5 Joyce Hajdukovic, Ruiz

March 13 Gayle M. Sison, Lemoyne

March 14 Hattie Q. Martin, Edwards

March 20 Darlene C. Crawford, Dvorak Acad

March 20 Diane Ehrlich, Austin High

March 20 Herman Pruitt, Wadsworth

March 21 Myrtle T. Gee

March 21 Richard Ovington, Dept of Correction

March 22 Johnetta C. Tabb, Dodge

March 24 Elaine Quinn, Pulaski

March 25 Margaret T. Dolan, Lincoln Park

March 25 Charles J. Mccann, Reciprocal

March 25 Edna A. Smith, Von Steuben

March 25 Ellen A. Strauss, Reassigned Teacher

March 28 Sharon Katzman, Kilmer

March 28 Richard M. Kowalczyk, Steinmetz AC

March 28 James H. Neufeldt, Jenner

March 28 Marcella M. Ward, Mahalia Jackson

March 29 Robert L. Barnes, Revere

March 30 Charles D. Kandalec, Castellanos

March 31 Monica J. Affleck, Metro High

March 31 Betty C. Gansinger, Donald Morrill

March 31 Doletta M. Jenkins, Morse

March 31 Doris M. Jennings, Spalding

March 31 Joy E. Panko-Donovan, Ravenswood

March 31 Lois K. Schmidt, George Washington

March 31 Martin J. Wojtalewicz, Mather

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April 1 J. Catherin Link, Corliss

April 3 John M. Jones, Substitute

April 4 Isabel Schechter, Otis

April 4 Wardell Vaughn, Farragut Career

April 5 Alice L. Evans, Caldwell

April 5 Bernadine Nadler, Nettelhorst

April 5 Mary J. Nothdurft, Mt. Vernon

April 6 Marianna Bowen, Thorpe

April 7 Jami D. English, Dyett

April 7 Ablah Mansour, Columbus

April 8 James J. Kuzel, Curie Metro

April 8 Stephen H. Shiu, Central Office

April 9 Remberto G. Teran, Wells

April 10 Camille E. Chase, McPherson

April 10 Rebecca W. Henderson, Douglas

April 10 John W. Hill, Reciprocal

April 10 Richard A. Palumbo, Reciprocal

April 11 Pauline A. Ziolkowski, Foreman

April 12 Gilbert P. Sessler, Substitute

April 13 William Borders, Juarez Comm Acad

April 15 Patricia B. Caples, Graham

April 15 Patricia Harrison, Overton

April 15 John J. O’Keefe, Byrne

April 15 Rita Royek, Chappell

April 17 Iris L. Jeter, Substitute

April 17 Burton H. Robin, Wilson

April 17 Robert C. Schappert, Reciprocal

April 17 Nancy A. Tamulewicz, Substitute

April 18 Thelma Perbohner, Haines

April 20 Bernadine Y. Jackson, Westcott Elem

April 21 Donald A. Young, Corliss High

April 22 John R. Washington, Julian

April 30 Douglas L. Gordon, Mather

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Quest Center Professional LearningRestorative. Relevant. Refl ective.

National Board Certifi cation – 2019-21 CohortRecruitment is nearing completion for the 2019–21 Nurturing Teacher Leadership cohort.

Please contact Lynn Cherkasky-Davis for information about the few remaining spots and scholarship opportunities at 312 329 6274 or LynnCherkasky-Davis@ctuf.org

Nurturing Teacher Leadership

The CPS/CTU’s 2-year FREE professional development & candidate support program, prepares CPS teachers, counselors, and librarians for National Board Certification (NBC). If you will have completed at least 3 years of teaching in your certificate area by June, 2019, you qualify to participate in NBC and earn this advanced certification, the highest credential a teacher can achieve, as well as:• advance on the CPS salary scale• fulfil your state re-licensure requirements• earn an annual $1960+ pensionable stipend• receive contractual and other leadership

opportunities including first consideration for Consulting Teacher and Framework Specialist roles

• qualify for a full scholarship • earn an optional Master’s Degree and/or graduate

and CPS Lane Placement salary credits• attain the ISBE NBPTS Master Certification

Endorsement exempting you from half the required ISBE PD hours

Benefits

Nurturing Teacher Leadership boasts a 94% achievement rate, twice the national average. It includes: • Weekly Professional Development and small group

facilitation• Collaboration with a cohort of other CPS teachers

going through the NBC process • Preparation for rigorous content knowledge

Assessment Center exercises• Individual coaching and mentoring by CPS National

Board Certified Teachers• Assistance with writing required for the National

Board portfolio• 7-day Summer Institute (1st two weeks in August,

2019 and 2020)• 36 Graduate Credits/Optional Master’s degree• 15 CPS Lane Placement Credits• Membership in the most highly regarded professional

learning community• Paid coaching roles upon achieving National Board

Certification• Joining the ranks of more than 2200 current CPS

National Board Certified Teachers, including former CTU President, Karen GJ Lewis, and

• Becoming a better teacher!

For more information contact Lynn Cherkasky-Davis at 312 329 6274 or LynnCherkasky-Davis@ctuf.org.

To learn more about National Board Certification and Nurturing Teacher Leadership meeting go to www.CTUF.org/NTL

PTSD/Trauma3 ISBE PD Hours, 3 CEU Hours for Social Workers

In this offering, participants will learn to identify the often confusing, even conflicting, symptoms of PTSD in youth, parents, teachers, and the community. They will learn strategies/interventions for working effectively with these populations on a 1:1 basis, in groups and in consultation. Learners will identify situations in their professional and personal lives related to PTSD, and work in small groups to discuss and role-play effective strategies and formulations. They will learn the need for self-care and practice strategies for use when working with individuals suffering with trauma and PTSD. The neurobiology of trauma and interventions will be a major focus of this professional development.

Course date/time: June 15

Course time: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Q. & A. Restorative Practices Fellowship 30 ISBE PD Hours and 2 Lane Placement Credits

This offering puts the Theory of Restorative Justice into practice. With a 2-day lesson in talking circles and a one-day lesson in restorative conversations, the Restorative Practices Fellowship is an in-person and online hybrid course that will culminate in a Learning Summit with students learning Restorative Practices through Alternatives, Inc. and the youth employment program, One Summer Chicago. Participants will garner restorative conversation and circle facilitation skills, which will enhance their ability to facilitate discussion in the classroom, build a positive classroom community, constructively address and prevent conflict, and enhance student social and emotional learning.

This course aligns to CPS Framework for Teaching Components 2a, 2c, 3b, and 3e.

Course dates: 6/25, 6/26, 6/27, and 7/18

Course time: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Summer Literacy Series30 ISBE PD Hours and 2 Lane Placement Credits

Through this professional development series, teachers will study best practices for teaching reading and writing. This series combines three courses in one. In the first course “Creating Units for Effective Literacy Instruction,” we will utilize the principles of backwards design and UbD to support participants as they design, refine, or recreate a literacy unit. The second part of the series will be “Implementing Reading and Writing Lessons with Fidelity” during which participants will study best practices for literacy instruction and assessment. The final course in the series entitled “No More Quiet Classrooms: Using accountable talk to increase reading comprehension” will focus on how to meet the needs of language learners while maintaining high expectations. This course is designed for literacy teachers from pre-k - 12th grade. Participants will receive 30 ISBE clock hours and 2 CPS Lane Placement Credits. This professional development series is aligned to the CPS Framework for Teaching Components 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e, 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, 3e, 4b, and 4d.

Course dates: Mondays and Wednesdays: 7/1, 7/3, 7/8, 7/10, 7/15, 7/17, 7/22, 7/24, 7/29, 7/31/2019

Course time: 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Teaching Contemporary Genocide15 ISBE PD Hours and 1 Lane Placement Credit

During this intensive, three day seminar, teachers will begin an investigation into contemporary genocides, such as Armenia, Cambodia, Rwanda, Syria, and Myanmar (the Rohingya). The course will include multi-media presentations, guest speakers and will draw interdisciplinary connections that align with state and national standards. Educators will be equipped to return to their classrooms with a deeper understanding of the historical background of many contemporary genocides and rich pedagogical resources. The program will enable them to investigate with their students the ramifications of prejudice, racism and indi�erence, and the role of the individual in nurturing and protecting democratic values and human rights. This seminar is aligned to the CPS Framework for Teaching components 1a, 1d, 2b, 3b, 3c, 4a, and 4d.

Course dates: 7/16, 7/17 and 7/18/2019

Course time: 9 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

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For information about further summer professional development offerings, please visit https://ctuf.catalog.instructure.com/