Stacy Davis Gates' leadership of the Chicago Teachers Union

The members of the Chicago Teachers Union have the reason to question President Stacy Davis Gates, who enters the union's elections on May 16. Her many scandals have led the union's reputation.

The President of the Chicago Teachers Union, Stacy Davis Gates, said some wild things, made enemies in other unions, prompted their members to sue a deficit, did not pay their taxes or pension companies and sent her son to private school instead of raising her by her members.

It faces a union election May 16. She has opposition. And she has a lot to answer.

The election shows the incumbent Caucus by rank-and-file educator And Davis Gates and opposing challenger Erica Meza And the “respect, educate, lawyer, lead” or real caucus.

The race between Real and Kern affects all taxpayers. CTU is currently part of A coalition The state legislators urge to adopt 7.3 billion US dollars in new taxes and spreads its gospel of strikes, politics and socialist doctrine new York And other blue cities.

Meza said it was time for a change in management.

“Our leadership is very obsessed with politics”, ” Meza Said Fox 32. “We really broken our union members. There are many different voices that are ignored. And we broke our relationships with our sister allies, our Labor allies, our parishioners and some of our parents.”

Davis Gates's term as President of the CTU was mostly about politics, but it was also about her gaffs, her dust-ups and her personal misdeeds and hypocrisy. Now 60% The union disapproved by Chicago voters.

Here are some of the lowlights that have marked the leadership of Davis Gates.

march 2025: Davis Gates refused

There was an argument between Davis Gates and Seiu Illinois State Council, Anthony Driver Anthony Driver, in a fundraising campaign that was organized by Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” which, in March 2025. Davis Gates reported to the driver who changed to the driver to withdraw it before you Driver said:

January 2025: Davis Gates mocked CPS CEO Pedro Martinez by comparing him with a “terrible” special education student who cannot be suspended

At a meeting of the union delegates in January 2025 with hundreds of elected union members in connection with contract negotiations, Davis Gates CPS CEO Pedro Martinez compared with a “terrible” special education student who cannot be suspended due to political restrictions.

The remark was taken out by lawyers and parents of special education, who called it “horrific” and “heartbreaking”. Davis goals later apologized.

October 2024: The CTU had not carried out an annual financial examination for its members for four years under Davis Gates' leadership – so the CTU members sued CTU

The internal rules of the CTU are clear: an annual audit must be carried out and published every year. But the Last full examination was released on September 9, 2020 and reported on the financial years 2017-2018 and 2018-2019. Full audits for 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 financial years were not published.

When asked about the missing audits of a CTU member, Davis Gates attacked the member personally. lettering The call to publish the necessary audits of a racist “dog whistle”.

CTU has published short, three-sided “audit reports” since then, but since then They are “no examination reports according to a generally understood definition of the term”, ” after to the Liberty Justice Center.

September 2024: Davis Gates names a prominent Chicago journalist as a “stalker”

In a performance on Ben Joravsky Show, Davis Gates called a prominent chicago journalist Paris Protection, a “stalker” who questioned her after a appearance with public media on WTTW. She did not withdraw from this comment and added: “I know what I say.”

Protection and other journalists were looking for information about Davis Gates' role in trying to release the CPS CEO Pedro Martinez expensive Contract requirements.

January 2024: CPS director and former CTU delegate report police report after Davis Gate's physical violence threatened

Davis Gates allegedly made threatening comments at a union assembly in January 2024 against a headmaster in Chicago, and asked the union members to sign violence against the director of the primary school in Stevenson, William Hozian. According to the police report submitted by the headmaster, Davis Gates said: “In conversation with my Stevenson brothers and sisters, I told them they should hit their headmaster.”

In December 2024 in response to a critic on social media Davis Gates wrote“Are you slow in real life?” Later in the same post, she said: “You are either a monster or slow sticks or both.”

December 2023: Davis Gates owed the city to almost 5,600 US dollars for supply companies

Davis Gates started a payment plan for 5,100 US dollars of water, wastewater and garbage invoices – according to the Illinois Policy Institute, however, almost immediately excluded. At a time you owed A little more than 5,700 US dollars. The payments became sporadic in 2023, then in November 2023, when the Illinois Policy Institute submitted an application for freedom of information and wrote about it Past bills and delay in a payment plan agreement.

The institute stored A new FOIA request on April 3, 2024 with the Chicago finance ministry. After the department had asked for two extensions of five working days, since “there is a need for advice” with other city companies, Foia's reaction to Davis Gates' City Utility Bills finally came up with the fact that she had paid it every day: $ 5,381 paid on April 15.

Chicago had seen from 2023 6.4 billion US dollars In unpaid fees, fines and other debts, have been piling up since 1990. Compotroller Chase Rehwinkel said that this responsible responsibility “violates the residents of the city of Chicago”.

November 2023: Davis Gates took the tax beneficiary of a home owner in an Indiana ownership in which she did not live

Davis Gates pressed So that the rich can pay their “fair proportion”But she received a property tax deduction in Indiana, which was reserved for the owners who actually occupy their houses REMOVED The deduction and the forced goals to pay taxes worth three years.

October 2023: CTU carried out her first reported deficit under the leadership of Davis Gates

According to the union's report at the US Ministry of Arbeit, CTU spent more money for the first time than was used in the 2023 financial year. In particular, the CTU reported 2023 receipt of US 35.5 million US dollars. However, there were almost 500,000 US dollars more, which reported almost 36 million US dollars. The members of the members emphasize that union leaders do not properly handle union funds or provide the members the necessary reporting.

October 2023: CTU spent almost three times more for politics under the leadership of Davis Gates in 2023

In the 2023 financial year, the CTU spent more money on “political activities and lobbying” than in a previous year since it started submitting federal reports to the US Ministry of Labor. In particular, the union almost tripled what it spent on politics in 2023, of just more than 1 million US without advice The members themselves.

September 2023: Davis Gates brought her son to private school and crushed educational opportunities for children with low incomes

While Davis Gates' hypocrisy was exposed to when he announced that she had placed her own son to the private school, Davis Gates the hypocrisy was exposed to when it started for the end of the only program for private school selection, which made it possible for private donors to receive a tax credit for financing grants. She specified You and her husband made the choice, “like this [their son] Could live out his dream of being a soccer player and at the same time have a curriculum that can meet his social and emotional needs. “Effective your legal profession against the scholarship program Crushes the dreams Of more than 15,000 children with low incomes that have lost the scholarships that have been made available by the now dissolved program. That at this time, income -effective Davis Gates was over 289,000 US dollars, or 543% more When the families who fought them to refuse scholarships.

March 2023: CTU Bankrolled Brandon Johnson's mayoral elections without advisory members

The CTU has introduced over 2.3 million US dollars to Brandon Johnson's campaign, one of his former employees. The expenditure was countered by members with internal criticism and may violate the union rules by using the political fees for politics without their consent. The action prompt An unfair Labor practice against the Union.