Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates stirred controversy by asserting that children belong to the union in her speech at the City Club of Chicago.
Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) President Stacy Davis Gates declared that children "belong" to the union during a speech Monday at the City Club of Chicago, igniting backlash from school choice advocates and conservative leaders. Gates invoked writer James Baldwin, saying, “The children are always ours… CTU thinks your children are its children. Yes, we do.”
