Chicago Teachers Union Suit Against CPS Progresses Toward Resolution
Federal District Court Judge David H. Coar presided this morning over a permanent injunction hearing brought by the Chicago Teachers Union against the Chicago Board of Education challenging the Board’s mass layoff of teachers earlier this summer. Judge Coar will issue a ruling in the coming weeks.
According to one of CTU’s lawyers, Michael Persoon of the law firm Despres, Schwartz & Geoghegan, Ltd., “This case hinges on whether tenure continues to mean anything in Chicago Public Schools. The CTU seeks to protect the rights and benefits of teacher tenure. Even during a layoff situation, tenured teachers must be given due process of law. We look forward to a speedy and positive resolution to this case, and to justice for the hundreds of laid off teachers in Chicago who dearly want to return to the classroom.”
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The Chicago Teachers Union represents 32,000 teachers and educational support personnel working in the Chicago Public Schools and, by extension, the students and families they serve. CTU, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers and the Illinois Federation of Teachers, is the third largest union in the country and the largest local union in Illinois.
