CPAA has gotten a verbal commitment from our Mayor-Elect, Lori Lightfoot, to increase overall staffing in your schools (see video below).

However, we know that powerful groups often apply pressure to elected officials to abandon support for investments in public schools. So we have to build public support to strengthen political resolve for getting our schools sufficiently staffed. One step in building public support is to spread the message, so we released a two-minute video on Twitter and Facebook featuring Mayor-Elect Lightfoot talking with CPAA President, Troy LaRaviere, about the need for adequate staffing.

Please follow the Twitter and Facebook links below to retweet and share our staffing message on both of these social media platforms.

Twitter: 

• "We know that many students have needs way beyond reading and writing.... Those things have to be part of the ecosystem of learning."

• Mayor-Elect Lightfoot addresses critical need for more staff in Chicago’s schools.

Facebook:

• CPS is the most understaffed school system in Illinois. Lori Lightfoot tells principals what she’s going to do about it.