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TERMS OF TENTATIVE SUCCESSOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT
BETWEEN CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION AND
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO
This Tentative Agreement for a Successor Collective Bargaining Agreement to the
2012-15 Collective Bargaining Agreement and made this ____ day of July, 2015 by
and between the negotiating teams of the Board of Education of the City of Chicago
and the Chicago to Teachers Union.
1. Term. This agreement shall be in effect from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016. The
current provision regarding a one year extension shall be eliminated from the
successor CBA.
2. Teacher Salaries. Teacher salaries shall increase as follows during the term of
this agreement:
Fiscal Year
FY2016
Base Salary
Increase
0.00%
Step Increase
Lane Increase
Per salary schedule,
Board policies and
current practices
Per salary
schedule,
Board policies
and current
practices
3. PSRP Salaries/Wages. PSRP base salaries shall be adjusted by $200 across the
Board on January 1, 2016 and the PSRP bonus provision of the current CBA will
be eliminated. Otherwise, PSRP shall receive the same increases as Teachers
set forth under Section 2.
4. Pension Pick-up. The Board shall continue pension pick up during this extension under the same terms contained in the 2012-15 agreement.
5. Joint Committee on District Revenues. The Board and the Union shall make
joint recommendations on appropriate ways to increase Board revenues to the
Governor and the General Assembly of the State of Illinois. The recommendations shall be transmitted to the Governor and leadership of both houses of the
General Assembly and published to the Board of Education and the CTU membership no later than June 30, 2016.
6. LMCC Revisions to Health Plans. The LMCC created in Article 31 shall review
CPS’s healthcare programs and make recommendations to the Board of Education to achieve significant savings in healthcare costs. Recommendations shall
be made no later than December 31, 2015 with possible implementation dates of
April 1, 2016 or July 1, 2016.
7. Teacher Evaluation.
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(a) Application. Article 39 shall not apply to:

Temporarily assigned teachers
The following sections of Article 39 shall not apply to Related Service Providers:
39-2.3 A, B, and C. Protocols regarding observations and pre- and postobservation conferences for RSPs shall be issued by the Joint Committee on
Teacher Evaluation no later than August 28, 2015.
(b) Effect of Two Successive Developing Ratings. The rule that a teacher who
receives two consecutive developing ratings without improvement shall be
rated unsatisfactory, set forth in Article 39-2, shall be suspended during
School Year 2015-16, (e.g., which means that teachers rated developing for a
second consecutive year in 2014-15 shall not be considered unsatisfactory
in 2015-16 and teachers rated developing for a second consecutive year in
2015-16 shall not be considered unsatisfactory in 2016-17.)
(c) Observations. Teachers shall be observed in accordance with the statutory
minimums (modifying Articles 39-2.3(B)(4), 39-3 and 39-4(A) and (B) and
any other provision concerning the number of observations, i.e.,



PAT (annual cycle) – A minimum of 2 formal observations and 1 informal
observation
Tenured rated less than proficient (or satisfactory/unsatisfactory) (annual
cycle) – a minimum of 2 formal observations, 1 informal observation
Tenured rated proficient or better – A minimum of 1 formal observation, 1
informal observation
Observations for teachers on a biennial rating cycle will be sequenced 1 month apart
(modifying Article 39-2.3(B)(2) and any other provision concerning the sequencing
of observations).
The parties will continue to negotiate in 2015 and 2016 with respect to Evaluations.
8. Joint Taskforce on Grading Practices. CPS and CTU shall form a joint task force of
educators to develop guidelines regarding best practices for teacher grading, e.g.,
recommended frequency of assessment, number of assessments per quarter etc.,
International Baccalaureate grading practices, and sequencing of grading etc. (Note
this is not GPAs or letter grade values). The task force shall issue guidelines as soon
as practicable, but in no event later than June 30, 2016, which principals, evaluators
and network administrators shall use to guide and assess teachers’ grading practices.
School/Department grading practices shall be consistent with district policies, developed in consultation with teachers and published annually at the beginning of
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each school year in the school’s staff handbook and other appropriate print or electronic communications. Teachers shall determine the number, type and frequency of
student assignment and assessments that are used to determine course grades, provided that they are responsible for regularly assessing student progress and for determining students’ grades in the subject area or activity for which the teacher is
responsible. Student grades shall be based upon the teacher’s independent professional judgment of the student’s work. Teachers’ grading practices must be clear to
staff, students and parents. .
9. Required and Optional Assessments. CPS will develop a standard assessment
calendar consisting of assessments mandated by CPS for REACH (e.g.,
NWEA, STAR, performance tasks) and state and federal laws and regulations (e.g.,
PARCC, ACCESS, DLM, NAEP). The calendar will also include assessments that provide students with access to placement/scholarship opportunities (e.g., Middle
Grades Algebra Exit Exam, AP, IB, STEM, dual enrollment) and assessments offered
centrally that schools can opt-in to (e.g. NWEA Science). The assessment calendar
will be made available to schools by August 15, 2015. No later than August 15,
2015, CPS and CTU shall mutually develop up to five supplemental model grade
band assessment calendars per elementary grade band for ELA, math, science and
social science or high school content area or grade level that include additional common formative assessments that teachers within those grade bands shall administer. Models may be amended annually to reflect changes in assessments and
assessment availability. The grade bands shall be as follows:
a.
d.
K to 2 Grade Band
b.
3 to 5 Grade Band
c.
6 to 8 Grade Band, and
High School Content Area or Grade Level Band.
Teachers within each grade band shall vote on the additional formative assessments
within those grades. A vote of those teachers shall be conducted during the week
of August 31 to September 4, 2015 to determine what if any additional assessments
shall be administered at each school during SY15-16. A vote of teachers within each
grade band shall be taken to determine what if any additional formative assessments will be administered at each school in SY2016-17 no later
than the end of the school year. Votes shall be taken in accordance with Appendix C
procedures except that only teachers within each grade band, including teachers
providing EL, MTSS or Special Ed services to students in the grade band, may
vote. Schools may waive the alternative models and develop a unique school-model
using the procedures of Appendix C.
10. Counseling & Case Management. The Joint Board-Union Counselor & Case Management Committee shall issue recommendations based on the pilot program in the
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All-Means-All pilot program being implemented in school years 2015-16 by April 1st,
2016. CPS shall provide the goals of the pilot program, costs (budgeted and actual)
related to the “All-Means-All” pilot, and provide documentation on the successes
and failures of the program. One of the goals of the Joint Board-Union Committee is
to find a way to allow counselors the ability to perform school counseling duties as
outlined in the Framework for School Counselors for at least 80% of school day. All
recommendations shall be implemented by the district in school year 2016-17 or
such other date(s) that the Joint Board-Union Committee agree on.
11. Paperwork Reduction. CPS shall eliminate the following paperwork for SY 201516:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j. During the course of the school year, no additional paperwork shall be imposed
except in compliance with Article 44-21.
See Side Letter.
12. Notice of New Positions. CPS shall provide CTU notice of new titles or job classifications when they are created.
13. Roll-over of Other Terms of the 2012-15 CBA. Except as specifically modified
herein, the terms 2012-15 collective bargaining agreement shall be extended to
June 30, 2016.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have set their hands and seals this ___ day of July, 2015.
BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF
CHICAGO
CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION, LOCAL 1,
IFT-AFT, AFL-CIO
_______________________________________________
Joseph Moriarty
Labor Relations Officer
____________________________________________
Karen Lewis
President
______________________________________________
James C. Franczek, Jr.
CBOE Labor Counsel
Dated:_________________________
____________________________________________
Robert E. Bloch
CTU General Counsel
Dated:______________________________
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