Tag: Champaign Educational Support Professionals

Teacher, custodian unions grill candidates for Champaign Unit 4 school board on shortages, Black Lives Matter

About three-quarters of districts in Illinois are struggling to hire bus drivers, cafeteria workers and teachers’ aides. Workers in Champaign want to know how future board members will help them.

Champaign Unit 4 school bus monitors, cafeteria workers now make at least $15 an hour

CHAMPAIGN — Custodians, assistant teachers and other support staff in the Champaign Unit 4 School District are all making at least $15 an hour, as of July 1. Both the school board and members of the Champaign Educational Support Professionals union approved a new, four-year contract last week. “Knowing what we proposed in the very