Maynard C. Krueger was an American socialist politician and an economics professor at the University of Chicago. He is best remembered as the 1940 vice presidential nominee of the Socialist Party of America.
William Michael Daley is an American lawyer,politician and former banker who served as the 24th White House Chief of Staff from January 2011 to January 2012 under President Barack Obama. Prior to this,he served as the 32nd U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 1997 to 2000 under President Bill Clinton.
Benjamin Gratz Brown was an American politician. He was a U.S. Senator,the 20th Governor of Missouri,and the Liberal Republican and Democratic Party vice presidential candidate in the presidential election of 1872.
Chicago Public Schools (CPS),officially classified as City of Chicago School District #299 for funding and districting reasons,in Chicago,Illinois,is the fourth-largest school district in the United States,after New York,Los Angeles,and Miami-Dade County. For the 2023–24 school year,CPS reported overseeing 634 schools,including 477 elementary schools and 157 high schools;of which 514 were district-run,111 were charter schools,7 were contract schools and 2 were SAFE schools. The district serves 323,251 students. Chicago Public School students attend a particular school based on their area of residence,except for charter,magnet,and selective enrollment schools.
Margaret A. Haley was a teacher,unionist,and Georgist land value tax activist,who was dubbed the "lady labor slugger". Haley was the first business representative of the Chicago Teachers Federation and a pioneer leader in organizing schoolteachers. During her long career with the CTF,Haley fought to correct tax inequalities,increase the salaries of teachers,and expose unfair land leasing by the Chicago Board of Education.
The Florida Education Association (FEA) is a statewide federation of teacher and education workers' labor unions in the US state of Florida. Its 145,000 members make it the largest union in the state. It is a merged affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA),and is a member of the AFL–CIO.
Nat LaCour was an American labor union leader and teacher. From 1971 to 1998,he was president of United Teachers of New Orleans (UTNO),American Federation of Teachers Local 527,the longest serving president in the local's history. Under his leadership,UTNO became the largest teachers union in the Deep South,eventually representing more than 7000 teachers,paraprofessionals,school secretaries,and administrative clericals.
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is a labor union that represents teachers,paraprofessionals,and clinicians in the Chicago public school system. The union has advocated for improved pay,benefits,and job security for its members,and it has opposed efforts to vary teacher pay based on performance evaluations. It also called for improvements in the Chicago schools,and asserts that its activities benefit students as well as teachers.
Tom Dooher is a teacher and labor union activist in the United States,and former president of the 70,000-member teachers union,Education Minnesota,AFT,NEA,AFL-CIO.
Ip Kwok-him,GBM,GBS,JP is a former unofficial member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong,served between 2016 and 2022. He is also former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong for the District Council (First) functional constituency and Hong Kong delegate to the National People's Congress and the former convenor of the caucus of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) in the Legislative Council. He was awarded the Grand Bauhinia Medal (GBM) by the Hong Kong SAR Government in 2017.
John T. Pawlikowski,O.S.M. is an American Servite priest,Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics,and Former Director of the Catholic-Jewish Studies Program,part of The Bernardin Center for Theology and Ministry,at Catholic Theological Union (CTU) in Chicago. He is currently in residence at Assumption Church in the River North section of Chicago.
Cebu Technological University,abbreviated as CTU and also known as Cebu Tech,is a public,non-sectarian,coeducational,state-funded higher education institution located in Cebu,Philippines. CTU was originally a part of the Philippine public high school system and traces its roots to the Manual Arts department of the Cebu Normal School,and was founded independently in 1911 as the Cebu Trade School. In 1928,the institution opened its own campus near the Port of Cebu,where its main campus still stands today.
Karen Lewis was an American educator and labor leader 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 20 years before becoming president of the teachers union,she was a high school chemistry teacher.
Jacqueline Barbara Vaughn was an American Chicago Public Schools special education teacher and labor leader. Vaughn is noted as the first African-American 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 in January 1994.
Henry Joseph Foner was a 20th-century Jewish-American social activist and president for more than two decades of the Joint Board,Fur,Leather and Machine Workers Union (FLM).
Helen Kelly was President of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions from 2007 to 2015.
The 2019 Chicago Public Schools strike was a labor dispute between Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union and the Service Employees International Union Local 73 that lasted 14 days. The strike began on October 17,2019,when both unions failed to reach a contract agreement with Chicago Public Schools over compensation,benefits,staffing,wrap-around services such as counselors,nurses,and librarians,and caps on class sizes. On October 31,the strike officially ended when the mayor and the Chicago Teachers Union reached a tentative agreement allowing students to go back to class on November 1,2019. The agreement included millions of dollars dedicated to reducing class sizes,hundreds more social workers,nurses and librarians,and a 16 percent salary increase over the coming five years,but did not achieve all the main goals of the unions.
Brandon Johnson is an American politician and educator who is currently serving as the 57th mayor of Chicago since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,Johnson previously served on the Cook County Board of Commissioners from 2018 to 2023,representing the 1st district.
Harry Alvin Brown was a college administrator and the seventh president of Illinois State Normal University in Normal,Illinois.
Stacy Davis Gates 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 previously serving as vice president under Jesse Sharkey.
