Full Text of HR0453 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 David Jackson on receiving the Education Writers's | 5 | | Award for his series with Gary Marx 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, David Jackson has been with the Chicago Tribune |
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| 1 | | since 1991, except for one year with The Washington Post, where | 2 | | he shared in a 1999 Pulitzer Prize; he has been a Pulitzer | 3 | | finalist 3 times; his articles have prompted congressional | 4 | | hearings, law enforcement indictments, and legislative reform; | 5 | | and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, David Jackson has investigated Illinois nursing | 7 | | homes, which led to sweeping changes in how they are run, | 8 | | mortgage fraud, exposing the link between gang members and the | 9 | | real estate industry, the coal mining industry, exposing | 10 | | numerous safety violations, school food illness outbreaks, and | 11 | | the connection between some of Chicago's top cops and crime | 12 | | syndicate figures; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, David Jackson has won the Medill Medal for Courage | 14 | | in Journalism; therefore, be it | 15 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 16 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 17 | | we recognize Chicago Tribune reporter David Jackson on | 18 | | receiving the Education Writers's Award for his series with | 19 | | Gary Marx on truancy and thank him for his efforts in | 20 | | investigative journalism to uncover those stores that need to | 21 | | be told; and be it further
| 22 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
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| 1 | | presented to David Jackson as an expression of our esteem and | 2 | | respect.
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