Chicago Teacher Union Governance Notes

Paul Vallas:

It’s not surprising to learn the CTU audits, hidden from CTU members for five years; reveals potential criminal conduct.

This is just another example of the CTU’s damaging behavior, which betrays both members and students and families.

Consider the following:

•The CTU has been silent about a shocking OIG report detailing an avalanche of misconduct cases, including 335 sexual misconduct cases in 2025, with 55 substantiated findings.

•The CTU has forced schools to abandon academic standards and return to social promotion.

•The CTU shuttered schools for 78 weeks Disrupted learning with repeated strikes and a 78‑week COVID shutdown, devastating students and working families.

•CTU members took extravagant, often unapproved trips across the globe, costing taxpayers millions ($23.6M over six years).

•The CTU lobbied to end the state’s private school scholarship program for low‑income families and bar students from a new federal scholarship program.


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