CTU’s official accounts on X, Facebook and TikTok posted the flyer, which began with the line “TELL GOVERNER [sic] PRITZKER.” After school choice advocate Corey DeAngelis posted the misspelled flyer to X, the CTU deleted its posts featuring the spelling error on all three of the platforms.
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“The Chicago Teachers Union doesn’t know how to spell ‘Governor,’” DeAngelis, the executive director of the Educational Freedom Institute, wrote in his X post, enclosing an image of the flyer, branded with the CTU logo.
The Chicago Teachers Union doesn’t know how to spell “Governor.” pic.twitter.com/FLJAJz3AbQ
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) January 13, 2026
“If the union can’t handle simple spelling on a flyer, imagine the oversight in their classrooms,” DeAngelis told the DCNF in a statement, calling the spelling mistake “Beyond parody.” “No wonder so many kids in Chicago can’t read.”
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CTU President Stacy Davis Gates called standardized tests “junk science rooted in white supremacy” when asked about the poor reading and math results across her city’s public schools, in an interview that year.
A June 2025 report from ChalkBeat and ProPublica said that approximately 150 schools in the Windy City’s public school district were “half-empty,” while 47 were “at less than one-third capacity, leading to high costs and limited course offerings.”
“Chicago Teachers Union leadership must have graduated from the ‘Quality Learing Center’ – how else do you explain such a glaring error while insisting on more money for ‘education’?” DeAngelis asked, referring to a since-closed Minneapolis daycare center’s misspelled sign. The center was prominently featured in YouTuber Nick Shirley’s recent viral video investigating a fraud scandal.
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The flyer in question urged Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, to “Make the ultra-wealthy pay their fair share & fully fund our schools.” Pritzker is a multi-billionaire heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune.
A quick-response code on the flyer still links to a petition sponsored by the May Day Coalition that includes the hashtags #NoKings and #NoBillionaires. The petition, unlike the flyer, spells the word “governor” correctly and states, “Help our Governors to stand up against the Trump occupations of our cities … while taking on the billionaires who are bleeding us dry.”
* Original Article:
‘Beyond parody’: Teacher’s union overseeing failing schools sends out flyer with glaring error