CORE: The Caucus of Rank-and-file Educators 0000
Under CORE’s leadership, the CTU has won class size protections, bilingual education provisions and sanctuary schools protections. We won big COLA raises in our current contract and bigger raises for paraprofessionals. We won safety agreements that protected us when a court outlawed school mask mandates and that allows flip-to-remote when quarantine rates are high.
We have huge opportunities around the corner for big improvements in our job conditions and in students’ learning conditions. That’s especially true since we have finally won the bargaining rights taken from us in 1995 and we will have elected members of the school board in the next election and a fully elected school board in 2026. But we’ll have to fight to win if we are to make the most of those opportunities. That’s why we need CORE to keep leading!
Latest Updates
CORE sponsors 1919 Chicago Race Riots bicycle ride to promote Black Lives Matter
Please join us for this historical ride and support BLM demands to commemorate a history of struggle by Black Chicagoans for equity and equality in the face of massive resistance, racism, and violence. Now is the time to fight for police free schools, sustainable community schools, and a Chicago that prioritizes the needs of the Black, Latinx, indigenous, immigrant and low income communities we serve.
CTU Latinx Caucus addresses Sanctuary in the time of Crisis
The CTU Latinx Caucus recently hosted a webinar on Sanctuary in a time of Crisis. CORE steering committee member Norma Noriega writes about the process.
CORE throws down at first virtual Board of Education meeting
In the first ever Chicago Board of Education virtual meeting, CORE members threw down. Check out remarks from Dennis Kosuth, School Nurse; Jackson Potter, High School Teacher; Jesse Sharkey, CTU President; and Katie Osgood, Special Education Teacher...
Read moreElect Howard Heath as the CORE retiree functional VP on CTU's Executive Board
