Chicago Teachers Union Focuses on Venezuela as Test Scores Drop

The union could spend money and efforts to improve reading and writing scores, but it's focused on international politics instead. 

 And that’s one reason why children who attend Chicago Public Schools struggle to read or do math. 

EMERGENCY PROTEST: NO WAR ON VENEZUELA. STOP THE BOMBINGS.

Join us in the streets to demand an end to U.S. aggression against Venezuela.

TODAY @ Federal Plaza – 5 PM pic.twitter.com/jjkLMAwFJv

— Chicago Teachers Union (@CTULocal1) January 3, 2026

Strangely, the Chicago Teachers' Union has a long history of supporting Venezuela, and it even visited the country in 2019.

Remember when the Chicago Teachers Union did a socialist propaganda trip to Venezuela? pic.twitter.com/ksRYbsr2K3

— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) January 3, 2026

When do you guys do the teaching part? https://t.co/37MlcKZ0UP

— Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) January 4, 2026

Never. The teachers union is not interested in improving the quality of education in America. They are interested in (1) their own power, and (2) leftist activism.

I don't even think they care that much about doing things like negotiating teacher salaries. https://t.co/zamCihUurX

— Sean W. Malone | That’s just, like, your opinion. (@CitizenAmedia) January 4, 2026

As a refugee from the Soviet Union who fled to America to escape oppression I am disgusted by the Chicago Teachers Union. The CTU, through its CORE caucus, once sent a delegation to Venezuela and returned with glowing praise for a brutal communist regime. Now those same activists… pic.twitter.com/jGcv53kMvB

— Nilam Civok (@CivokNilam) January 3, 2026

It’s been 1,901 days since the Chicago Teachers Union last published its required annual audit.

And Congress just took notice.

New federal demands could trigger national labor reform, not to mention federal charges against CTU leadership.

But this scandal is often… pic.twitter.com/gsaIzcY8ED

— Austin Berg (@Austin__Berg) November 23, 2025

This is where your tax dollars are going.
CPS just raised your property taxes again, yet our kids can’t read, can’t do basic math, can’t critically think, and aren’t even safe at school.
Meanwhile, @ChiPubSchools and the @CTULocal1 can spend $7.7 million on luxury trips, fund… pic.twitter.com/7kMqn6CFbg

— Danielle Carter (@Dannic44) January 3, 2026

Not a single child was proficient in reading in 24 public schools in Illinois. https://t.co/GquBlPXjUC pic.twitter.com/9nLURwmjIh

— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) August 29, 2025

The Chicago Teachers Union is so incompetent it started protesting a war after the war had finished. https://t.co/IHafBJzNC2

— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) January 4, 2026