Full Text of HJR0065 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
| 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
| 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
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Many of these reforms are controversial and | 11 | | require a robust democratic discussion and decision-making | 12 | | process; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, For the past 15 years, citizens have had little to | 14 | | no voice in school policy; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, All children must be able to walk across the | 16 | | street to receive a world class education; therefore, be it
| 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
| 5 | | RESOLVED, That The Task Force shall be composed of the | 6 | | following members:
| 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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