The power of engaged members and coalitions: Legislature passes key paycheck protections, tighter school closure moratorium
Passing bills in the General Assembly is never easy — as our 10-year fight to win an elected school board shows — but it is an even harder lift during the two-week fall veto session. That is why I am thrilled to report success this year on three pieces of key legislation that your support and advocacy helped pass during the just-completed fall session.
Elected school board is an historic achievement for Chicago’s students, families and school communities
In a victory for democracy, students, families and educators will now have the voice they have long been denied for a quarter of a century by failed mayoral control of our schools.
Thank your legislators for an elected school board
Up until now, Chicago Public Schools has never had an elected school board in its entire history. All that will change as HB 2809 — passed in the Illinois General Assembly’s 2021 spring session — goes into effect. It’s been a long time coming.
Chicago Teachers Union statement on the passage of elected school board bill
Today’s vote represents the will of the people, and after more than a quarter of a century, moves our district forward in providing democracy and voice to students and their families.
Take Action for a Fully Elected, Representative School Board
Elected, Representative School Board legislation is moving through the General Assembly.
Elected school board, charter accountability top CTU legislative agenda
Our success in Springfield depends on you — call your legislators today.
Coalition of more than 50 organizations supports fully elected school board in Chicago
A broad coalition of community, faith and labor organizations representing Chicago Public Schools parents and neighborhood stakeholders in every area of Chicago have aligned to put their collective weight behind State Rep. Delia Ramirez’s HB2908 and Sen. Robert... Mayor Lightfoot’s broken promise of an elected representative school board
If, by the mayor’s standards, current elected school board proposals are illegitimate to govern our school communities, consider how much decades of mayoral control has met, or exceeded, that illegitimacy.
Elected school board NOW
Chicago’s Grassroots Education Movement alliance and CTU are mounting a campaign to pass HB 2267 — for an elected, representative school board — when lawmakers return to the Capitol after for a “lame duck” session, the closing days of the current general assembly before new legislators are seated. But the success of that campaign will depend on members contacting their state senators and insisting the bill get consideration first thing in the new year.
