Chicago Teachers Union is keeping kids out of school without any input: Lawyer
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The Jesse Sullivan for Governor campaign is calling to defund the Chicago Teachers Union for pushing radical curriculum after receiving whistleblower documents that show members sharing race-based lessons they've used in the classroom.
The campaign reportedly obtained Facebook messages from a whistleblower from CTU’s private Facebook group from the past two years that, according to the campaign, violate the prohibition of using taxpayer funds for political activities, outlined by the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act & State Employees Ethics Act. The law states that, "State employees shall not intentionally perform any prohibited political activity during any compensated time (other than vacation, personal, or compensatory time off)."
In one Facebook post received by the Sullivan campaign and shared with Fox News Digital, CTU President Stacy Davis Gates shares a story from a library media specialist boasting about inserting race into school curriculum, which the campaign charged is "in direct violation of district policy."
"In my own experience as a former English teacher in Chicago Public Schools for 15 years, CPS told teachers twice to ban curriculum and limit discussions about race. I didn't listen either time," she quoted, with a link to a Chicago Tribune op-ed from last May entitled, "Limiting teachers' curriculum...
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