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The Chicago Teachers Union’s (CTU) social media accounts disseminated a flyer across multiple platforms that misspelled the word “governor.”

CTU’s official accounts on X, Facebook and TikTok posted the flyer, which began with the line “TELL GOVERNER 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.

The CTU, which represents teachers in the public school system of the third-largest city in the United States, did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

“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.

“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.”

A November 2024 report from the Illinois Policy Institute, a free market think thank, found that fewer than one-third of elementary students at Chicago Public Schools could read at their grade level — and less than 20% met their grade level’s math standards that year.

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.

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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.

“The teachers union is begging for more funding when Chicago already spends over $30,000 per student per year, yet they can’t even spell ‘governor’ correctly on their own materials,” DeAngelis said in this statement.

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.”

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