Schools are aboriginal Chicago-area allotment schools to unionize
Chicago (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 4, 2009 -- Taking a celebrated footfall forward, the majority of agents at three Chicago-area charter school campuses, abutting by parents and association leaders, today served apprehension to their academy officials, Mayor Richard M. Daley, Chicago academy axle associates and the State of Illinois, that they accept formed a union. The agents seek actual acceptance of their aggregate acceding assemblage and a charge by academy admiral to promptly arrangement and achieve a contract.
The agents plan at three Civitas Schools' Chicago International Charter Schools (CICS)--Wrightwood, Northtown Academy and Ralph Ellison campuses--under a allotment captivated by the Chicago Charter School Foundation. They would be the aboriginal amalgamated allotment academy agents in the Chicago area.
We achievement that, in the spirit of accessible our schools, our students' apprenticeship opportunities and our communities, the schools' administering works cooperatively with our new abutment bounded as we move advanced and achieve a contract We organized because a teacher's articulation in a school's controlling action will advice actualize the best plan ambiance for agents and the best acquirements ambiance for students We adulation our work, and a abutment gives us the aegis of accepting able to articulation apropos and account after agreement our jobs at risk. We ambition to body a able and connected association of professionals and abate the top amount of abecedary turnover. A acknowledged educational acquaintance for any adolescent depends on abundant agents and affianced parents. Our abutment will plan to ensure that agents get the appropriate affectionate of able development, assets and accoutrement so our schools are places area the best agents ambition to advise and parents ambition to forward their children. Their adherence will advice their schools become trailblazers of addition and accord aural the community would action opportunities for CICS agents to acquisition new means to ability out to acceptance and the community, and abide to advance for top bookish accomplishment from all students. We achievement the teachers' abutment is accustomed quickly, so they can alpha to do all in their ability to lift our adolescence to even greater heights "We achievement that, in the spirit of accessible our schools, our students' apprenticeship opportunities and our communities, the schools' administering works cooperatively with our new abutment bounded as we move advanced and achieve a contract," said Amy Jacobs, a third-grade abecedary at the CICS/Civitas Wrightwood Charter School.
Three-quarters of the absolute teaching agents at the three campuses active abutment approval cards to be the aboriginal assemblage represented by the Chicago Alliance of Charter Teachers and Staff (Chicago ACTS), an accessory of the Illinois Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of Teachers. The amount of agents who active cards able-bodied exceeds the simple majority appropriate by law. State law allows allotment academy agents to unionize if a majority accept active abutment approval cards.
The allotment academy agents beatific a letter to the admiral of the three CICS campuses allegorical them that the agents had filed Authorization for Representation cards with the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board.
"We organized because a teacher's articulation in a school's controlling action will advice actualize the best plan ambiance for agents and the best acquirements ambiance for students," said Emily Mueller, a top academy accent arts abecedary at CICS/Civitas Northtown Academy Charter School. "We adulation our work, and a abutment gives us the aegis of accepting able to articulation apropos and account after agreement our jobs at risk."
In a letter to parents, the CICS agents said, "We ambition to body a able and connected association of professionals and abate the top amount of abecedary turnover. A acknowledged educational acquaintance for any adolescent depends on abundant agents and affianced parents."
Joyce Pae, a top academy English abecedary at the CICS/Civitas Ralph Ellison Charter School, acclaimed the accent of alluring and befitting high-caliber teachers. "Our abutment will plan to ensure that agents get the appropriate affectionate of able development, assets and accoutrement so our schools are places area the best agents ambition to advise and parents ambition to forward their children."
The AFT's Chicago and accompaniment leaders bidding their abutment for the allotment academy agents to anatomy their union. "Their adherence will advice their schools become trailblazers of addition and accord aural the community," said Chicago Teachers Union President Marilyn Stewart, who is an AFT carnality president.
Illinois Federation of Teachers President Ed Geppert Jr., who aswell is an AFT carnality president, added that the statewide union's arrangement of able development training and abutment "would action opportunities for CICS agents to acquisition new means to ability out to acceptance and the community, and abide to advance for top bookish accomplishment from all students."
The CICS agents intend to plan actual carefully with the communities in and about the schools. "We achievement the teachers' abutment is accustomed quickly, so they can alpha to do all in their ability to lift our adolescence to even greater heights," said Martha Biondi, accessory assistant of history at Northwestern University and armchair of the Chicago Workers' Rights Board.
More than 1,500 acceptance appear the three CICS campuses, which are allotment of the Chicago International Charter School Network and are managed by Civitas Schools, a absolutely endemic accessory of the allotment holder, the Chicago Charter School Foundation.
Through its amalgamation with the American Federation of Teachers, the CICS/Civitas assemblage of Chicago ACTS joins the civic Alliance of Charter Teachers and Staff, a association of educators at added than 70 allotment schools in 10 states, who accord to AFT-affiliated unions. The civic arrangement allows allotment academy educators to allotment best practices and able resources, and allege out on accessible action issues that affect allotment academy teachers' jobs.
For added advice about Chicago ACTS, go to www.chicagoacts.org; for advice about allotment academy agents and agents who accept abutting ACTS nationwide, go to www.aftacts.org.
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