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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, Three hundred Chicagoans are being honored for
3 "ten years of service" to the Chicago Public Schools as Local
4 School Council members at an Awards Breakfast co-sponsored by
5 the Union League Club of Chicago and the Chicago Board of
6 Education on Monday, February 14, 2000; and
7 WHEREAS, The first election for the two-year Local School
8 Council term was held in the Chicago public schools on
9 October 11 and 12, 1989; and
10 WHEREAS, Over the years, more than 10,000 individuals
11 have served as LSC members for the Chicago Public Schools;
12 three hundred individuals have served continuously for ten
13 years; those ten-year veteran LSC members have served at 156
14 schools distributed throughout the six Regions of the Chicago
15 public school system; and
16 WHEREAS, Chicago's ten year experiment with site-based
17 management is the most radical urban school reform in the
18 country; the "Chicago model" for school reform gives parents
19 and community members control over school improvement plans
20 and local school budgets; and
21 WHEREAS, Chicago school reform was a bold initiative
22 created out of Mayor Harold Washington's Education Summit in
23 1987 that involved parents, community, and staff in
24 site-based management of each of the city's nearly 600 public
25 schools; in 1995, Mayor Richard M. Daley used expanded
26 executive powers following the 1995 School Reform Act to
27 continue the reform of Chicago's public school system; and
28 WHEREAS, Local School Council members are unpaid public
29 officials who work with their school communities to provide
30 quality education for the public school children of the City
31 of Chicago; research has shown that most councils function
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1 well and most council members bring above average education
2 and work backgrounds to the councils; therefore, be it
3 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
4 NINETY-FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
5 we join the City of Chicago and the Chicago Board of
6 Education in honoring the three hundred parents, teachers,
7 and community people who have served as Local School Council
8 members continuously since the 1989 Chicago school reforms
9 were instituted; and be it further
10 RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
11 presented to the Chicago Board of Education, Office of School
12 and Community Relations.