Full Text of HR0079 95th General Assembly
HR0079 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are pleased to honor milestones in the lives of | 4 |
| citizens of the State of Illinois; and
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| WHEREAS, Cydney Fields, Principal of William H. Ray | 6 |
| Elementary School in Hyde Park, Illinois, has made the decision | 7 |
| to retire on June 30, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, Cydney Fields began teaching for the Chicago | 9 |
| Public Schools (CPS) in 1974 and her exceptional empathy for | 10 |
| children with special needs was clear from the beginning of her | 11 |
| career; she administered the CPS program for Autistic children | 12 |
| with exemplary skill but missed the warmth of a school | 13 |
| community and interaction with a wide variety of children; she | 14 |
| found a professional home at the William H. Ray School in March | 15 |
| of 1990 when she was selected principal; and
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| WHEREAS, The Ray community won her heart by virtue of the | 17 |
| great degree of parent and community involvement in the school, | 18 |
| and she won the hearts of the principal selection committee | 19 |
| because she understood the need to challenge and include every | 20 |
| child, because she recognized the importance of recess and | 21 |
| because she was willing to admit to her need to read the | 22 |
| occasional junky novel; and
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| WHEREAS, During her time as principal she oversaw the | 2 |
| razing of the thirty year old "temporary" annex and the | 3 |
| construction of a new annex carefully planned to serve a | 4 |
| contemporary community school, with a library fit for reading | 5 |
| and technology, handicapped accessible, and a special | 6 |
| conference room for all of Ray's active committees; she has | 7 |
| been troubled by the rise in the importance of standardized | 8 |
| tests but resisted this trend by using them to measure | 9 |
| progress, not set goals; together with the school staff and | 10 |
| supportive parents, she has started a pre-kindergarten program | 11 |
| hailed by the New York Times as "paradise", as well as Spanish | 12 |
| language classes, and an after-school program; and | 13 |
| WHEREAS, Under Cydney Fields' leadership, Ray has become | 14 |
| the model inclusion school and set the bar for other schools to | 15 |
| meet; Ray has bucked the selective enrollment trend by offering | 16 |
| parents a school where every child can flourish from the most | 17 |
| intellectually advanced to special needs children and | 18 |
| including those who fall in between those categories; with her | 19 |
| guidance, Ray's wonderful teachers have established a creative | 20 |
| learning environment serving a diverse community with dazzling | 21 |
| results; and
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| WHEREAS, Cydney Fields plans to travel and pursue other | 23 |
| interests, including basket weaving, upon her retirement; she |
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| also plans to help new principals as a consultant; therefore, | 2 |
| be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 4 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 5 |
| congratulate Cydney Fields on her retirement from William H. | 6 |
| Ray Elementary School and wish her continued success in the | 7 |
| future; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 9 |
| presented to Principal Cydney Fields as a sign of our | 10 |
| affection, our gratitude, and our respect.
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