• The Chicago Teachers Federation was a teachers union in Chicago Illinois that was founded in 1897. It is considered a predecessor of today's Chicago Teachers...
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  • The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is a labor union that represents teachers, paraprofessionals, and clinicians in the Chicago public school system. The...
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    The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is the second largest teacher's labor union in America (the largest being the National Education Association)...
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    Spata (incumbent) Labor unions American Federation of Teachers local 1600 Chicago Federation of Labor Chicago Teachers Union Service Employees International...
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    Margaret Haley (category Chicago Teachers Union people)
    slugger". Haley was the first business representative of the Chicago Teachers Federation and a pioneer leader in organizing schoolteachers. During her...
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    Foster. The CFL also affiliated the Chicago Federation of Teachers, providing critical support for the nascent teachers' union movement. After World War...
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    Randi Weingarten (category Presidents of the American Federation of Teachers)
    American Federation of Teachers (AFT) since 2008, and is a member of the AFL-CIO. She is the former president of the United Federation of Teachers. Weingarten...
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    Karen Lewis (category American Federation of Teachers people)
    who served as president of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), Chicago's division of the American Federation of Teachers, from 2010 to 2014. For nearly...
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  • Jacqueline B. Vaughn (category American Federation of Teachers people)
    and first woman to serve as president of the Chicago Teachers Union, the nation's third largest teachers union local from August 1984 until her death...
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    Illinois Federation of Teachers, Chicago Teachers Union (AFT Local 1), Cook County College Teachers Union (AFT Local 1600), and Southwest Suburban Teachers Union...
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    Stacy Davis Gates (category American Federation of Teachers people)
    is an American labor leader and educator. She is president of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). In May 2022, she was elected president of the union after...
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    The 2019 Chicago Public Schools strike was a labor dispute between Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union (which represents the school...
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    woman. She was a school principal in Chicago for many years, and president of the Chicago Teachers' Federation from 1905, succeeding Margaret Haley....
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    Chicago Public Schools. Litigation launched by the Chicago Teachers Federation against the Chicago Board of Education regarding the rule was fought in...
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  • British historian Margaret Haley (1861-1939), former leader of the Chicago Teachers Federation Mary Hayley (1728–1808), English businesswoman Matt Haley (born...
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  • (MEA) and the Montana Federation of Teachers (MFT) in 2000. In 1882, seven years before statehood, Montana frontier parents and teachers formed what ultimately...
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  • George Counts (category American Federation of Teachers people)
    Society in Chicago (1971). Austin, J. George Counts at Teachers College, 1927-1941;: A study in unfulfilled expectations. Braun, R. (2002) Teachers and Power...
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  • school located in the Old Town neighborhood on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Opened primarily to serve Cabrini-Green in 1958...
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    William Rainey Harper (category Presidents of the University of Chicago)
    dispute contributed to the organizing of the Chicago Teachers Federation, the precursor to the Chicago Teachers Union. In 1896, Harper assisted Lydia Moss...
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    Data". American Federation of Teachers. 16 April 2015. Archived from the original on 28 June 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2019. "Preschool Teachers". Occupational...
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    William McAndrew (category Educators from Chicago)
    enemy of local teacher unions, which disapproved of his elimination of teachers' councils and strict rules in governing teachers. In Chicago, McAndrew attracted...
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    Brandon Johnson (category Mayors of Chicago)
    the Chicago Teachers Union in 2011, and helped organize the 2012 Chicago teachers strike. He also helped lead field campaigns during the 2015 Chicago mayoral...
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    Lillian Herstein (category American Federation of Teachers people)
    a local affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers.: 15  She represented her union in the Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL) and for a quarter of...
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  • Teachers and Reform: Chicago Public Education, 1929–1970 is a 2008 book by John F. Lyons, published by University of Illinois Press, which traces the development...
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    Russia (redirect from Russian Federation)
    Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across...
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    support from the city's teachers organizations. He was personally endorsed by Margaret Haley, president of the Chicago Teachers Federation. Many liberal Republicans...
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    Albert Shanker (category Presidents of the American Federation of Teachers)
    was president of the United Federation of Teachers from 1964 to 1985 and president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) from 1974 to 1997. Shanker...
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    dismissed were almost all Jewish. The United Federation of Teachers (UFT), led by Albert Shanker, demanded the teachers' reinstatement and accused the community-controlled...
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  • Edwin G. Cooley (category University of Chicago alumni)
    women teachers, most of whom in Chicago at the time were Irish Catholics. There was regular hostility between his office and the Chicago Teachers Federation...
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  • Association California Teachers Association Ceylon Teachers Service Union Chicago Teachers Union Cincinnati Federation of Teachers Colorado Education Association...
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