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| 1 | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, City of Chicago School District 299 is one of the | ||||||
| 3 | only school districts in this State with an appointed, not an | ||||||
| 4 | elected, school board; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, For 15 years, City of Chicago School District 299 | ||||||
| 6 | has implemented a staggering number of reforms, including | ||||||
| 7 | probation, student retention, school closings, charters, | ||||||
| 8 | turnarounds, and the wholesale firing of 1,300 educators in the | ||||||
| 9 | summer of 2011; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, Many of these reforms are controversial and | ||||||
| 11 | require a robust democratic discussion and decision-making | ||||||
| 12 | process; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, For the past 15 years, citizens have had little to | ||||||
| 14 | no voice in school policy; and
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| 15 | WHEREAS, All children must be able to walk across the | ||||||
| 16 | street to receive a world class education; therefore, be it
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| 17 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 18 | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE | ||||||
| 19 | SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that the Chicago Educational | ||||||
| 20 | Governance Task Force is created for the purpose of | ||||||
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| 1 | recommending the best structure and procedure for the | ||||||
| 2 | governance of City of Chicago School District 299 in order to | ||||||
| 3 | protect the welfare of the students of the City of Chicago; and | ||||||
| 4 | be it further
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| 5 | RESOLVED, That The Task Force shall be composed of the | ||||||
| 6 | following members:
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| 7 | (1) two members each appointed by the Speaker of the | ||||||
| 8 | House of Representatives and the Minority Leader of the | ||||||
| 9 | House of Representatives, at least one of whom must either | ||||||
| 10 | be a member of the Elementary & Secondary Education | ||||||
| 11 | Committee or a member whose representative district | ||||||
| 12 | includes a portion of City of Chicago School District 299; | ||||||
| 13 | (2) two members each appointed by the President of the | ||||||
| 14 | Senate and the Minority Leader of the Senate, at least one | ||||||
| 15 | of whom must either be a member of the Education Committee | ||||||
| 16 | or a member whose legislative district includes a portion | ||||||
| 17 | of City of Chicago School District 299; | ||||||
| 18 | (3) two representatives of Chicago school community | ||||||
| 19 | organizations with past involvement in school governance | ||||||
| 20 | issues, appointed by the Speaker of the House of | ||||||
| 21 | Representatives; | ||||||
| 22 | (4) two representatives of Chicago school community | ||||||
| 23 | organizations with past involvement in school governance | ||||||
| 24 | issues, appointed by the President of the Senate; | ||||||
| 25 | (5) the Chief Executive Officer of City of Chicago | ||||||
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| 1 | School District 299 or her or his designee; | ||||||
| 2 | (6) the President of the Chicago Board of Education or | ||||||
| 3 | her or his designee; | ||||||
| 4 | (7) the President of the Chicago Teachers Union or his | ||||||
| 5 | or her designee; | ||||||
| 6 | (8) the president of the association representing | ||||||
| 7 | principals in the schools of the district or his or her | ||||||
| 8 | designee; and | ||||||
| 9 | (9) the student representative from the Chicago Board | ||||||
| 10 | of Education or his or her designee; and be it further | ||||||
| 11 | RESOLVED, That the Speaker of the House of Representatives | ||||||
| 12 | shall appoint one of the appointed House members as a | ||||||
| 13 | co-chairperson of the Chicago Educational Governance Task | ||||||
| 14 | Force, and the President of the Senate shall appoint one of the | ||||||
| 15 | appointed Senate members as a co-chairperson of the Chicago | ||||||
| 16 | Educational Governance Task Force; and be it further | ||||||
| 17 | RESOLVED, That members appointed by the legislative | ||||||
| 18 | leaders shall be appointed for the duration of the Chicago | ||||||
| 19 | Educational Governance Task Force; and be it further | ||||||
| 20 | RESOLVED, That in the event of a vacancy, the appointment | ||||||
| 21 | to fill the vacancy shall be made by the legislative leader of | ||||||
| 22 | the same chamber and party as the leader who made the original | ||||||
| 23 | appointment; and be it further | ||||||
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| 1 | RESOLVED, That the members of the Task Force shall serve on | ||||||
| 2 | a pro bono basis; and be it further | ||||||
| 3 | RESOLVED, That the members of the Task Force shall aid in | ||||||
| 4 | the gathering of pertinent information on the impact of various | ||||||
| 5 | school governance structures, including without limitation an | ||||||
| 6 | elected representative school board and mayoral control, as | ||||||
| 7 | well as gathering and analyzing data about the district's | ||||||
| 8 | current governance structure; and be it further | ||||||
| 9 | RESOLVED, That the Task Force shall report its | ||||||
| 10 | recommendation as to which governance structure is best | ||||||
| 11 | designed to serve the students of the City of Chicago to the | ||||||
| 12 | General Assembly on or before May 30, 2012; and be it further | ||||||
| 13 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 14 | delivered to the Chief Executive Officer of City of Chicago | ||||||
| 15 | School District 299, the Chicago Board of Education, and the | ||||||
| 16 | President of the Chicago Teachers Union.
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