Thursday, July 19, 2018, Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund Board of
Trustees appointed James Cavallero to serve as a Teacher Trustee.
Trustee Cavallero will serve out the remainder of Trustee Bernice
Eshoo’s term, until the Board’s regular November meeting.
Trustee
Eshoo retired from active service in June.

Trustee Cavallero has been a special education teacher in the
Chicago Public Schools since 1994, and currently teaches at
Chicago Academy High School. He earned a BA in Education and
Social Sciences from the University of Illinois-Chicago, as well
as completing graduate work in Special Education at UIC, and has
served as the CTPF Pension Representative at Chicago Academy
since 2004. Cavallero also has a long history of working with the
Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), beginning with serving as CTU
Special Education Committee Chair from 2010-2013 and currently
acting as CTU School Delegate for Chicago Academy, a position he
has held since 2004.

“As a Pension Representative for more than a decade, we
appreciate the long service Trustee Cavallero offered to CTPF and
welcome him to the Board representing active teachers,” said
Charles A. Burbridge, CTPF Executive Director. “Our Trustees
dedicate an impressive amount of time and energy to CTPF, and
Trustee Cavallero’s long history of service and volunteer work
provides an excellent background for this position. We look
forward to working with him in the coming months.”

According to CTPF policy, following the declaration of the
vacancy on the Board, a committee was appointed to evaluate
candidates and recommend an individual to the Board. Five active
teachers applied for the position. The committee met to evaluate
applications and made a formal recommendation which the Board
accepted on July 19, 2018. The next election for Teacher Trustees
will be held November 1-7, 2018.