Full Text of HR0452 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to recognize Chicago Tribune | 4 | | reporter Gary Marx on receiving the Education Writers's Award | 5 | | for his series with David Jackson on truancy; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, The Education Writers Association has given a top | 7 | | award to a 2012 Chicago Tribune series that used internal | 8 | | Chicago attendance data to reveal a devastating pattern of | 9 | | school absences in grades K-8 that disproportionately affects | 10 | | African-American youth and children with disabilities; while | 11 | | Chicago officials for years published upbeat attendance | 12 | | statistics, the newspaper found roughly 32,000 elementary | 13 | | students missed at least a month of classes in a year, while | 14 | | thousands more simply vanished from the attendance rolls; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Chosen from among hundreds of submissions across | 16 | | the country, the series won first prize for investigative | 17 | | reporting among large newspapers; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, Days after the publication of the series in | 19 | | November 2012, State lawmakers began working on reforms aimed | 20 | | at saving thousands of children from isolation and failure; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, Gary Marx is an investigative reporter with the |
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| 1 | | Chicago Tribune; he started at the Tribune in 1988; he has been | 2 | | the paper's South America correspondent (1990-1994), covered | 3 | | criminal justice, and served on the foreign staff based in | 4 | | Havana, Cuba from 2002-2007; he has covered numerous armed | 5 | | conflicts and U.S. military operations including Iraq, | 6 | | Somalia, Hati, and Colombia; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Gary Marx is a 2-time Pulitzer Prize finalist in | 8 | | investigative reporting; other national awards he has received | 9 | | include the Heywood Broun Award, the IRE FOI Medal, the | 10 | | Education Writers Association Grand Prize, and a National Press | 11 | | Club Award; for his abroad work, he has received the Overseas | 12 | | Press Club Citation, the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, and the | 13 | | Inter-American Press Association Human Rights Award; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Gary Marx began his journalism career in 1983 with | 15 | | the Christian Science Monitor and later joined the Orlando | 16 | | Sentinel; he has a bachelors of arts from Harvard and a masters | 17 | | degree from the London School of Economics; in 2001, he was a | 18 | | John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford and in 2008 he was | 19 | | a visiting Fellow at Notre Dame's Kellogg Institute of | 20 | | International Studies; therefore, be it | 21 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 22 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 23 | | we recognize Chicago Tribune reporter Gary Marx on receiving |
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| 1 | | the Education Writers's Award for his series with David Jackson | 2 | | on truancy and thank him for his efforts in investigative | 3 | | journalism to uncover those stores that need to be told; and be | 4 | | it further
| 5 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 6 | | presented to Gary Marx as an expression of our esteem and | 7 | | respect.
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