Chicago Teachers Union

The Chicago Teachers Union president is participating in NEIU's annual tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.

The year began with Mayor Rahm Emanuel in the first mayoral runoff and only went downhill from there.

Sara Sayigh won't be laid off as planned after hundreds of students staged a sit-in during school.

The Chicago Teachers Union easily met a threshold that 75 percent of its membership authorize a strike.

The Chicago Teachers Union is voting Wednesday to Friday to authorize a strike.

The union said CPS wants a pay freeze, $653 million in concessions, larger classes and school closings.

The Chicago Teachers Union will take a vote to authorize a strike next week.

"I am comfortable with who I am," Mayor Rahm Emanuel said in a sometimes testy interview with Politico.

Thousands of CTU members and supporters rallied for "good schools and a fair contract" downtown Monday.

CEO Forrest Claypool said CPS has 20 percent of state students, but gets 15 percent of school funding.

The Chicago Teachers Union released the results of the vote Monday.  

Edgebrook Elementary School has earned a Level One-Plus rating, the highest a school can achieve.

Unlike 2012's strike that hit the streets, this potential one would occupy banks, Karen Lewis said.

Ald. Scott Waguespack said special-ed students "need more assistance, not less."

The Chicago Board of Education has signed off on the plan, which would fund school modernization.