Seth Perlman, AP file
Chicago voters would get to decide who sits on the city’s school board in the next two municipal elections under a bill that passed the Illinois House on Thursday and now moves to the state Senate.
All Chicago-based legislators voted in favor of advancing the bill, which would allow for the election of members of the Chicago Board of Education “for the 2023 and 2027 consolidated primary elections only” and requires the General Assembly to “review and revise the election of members of the Chicago Board of Education” at a later date.
A graduate of Chicago Public Schools, state Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Chicago, said the bill “will allow for the first time in a long time for Chicago to have” the same democracy as other municipalities that elect their local school boards.
CPS reaches tentative deal with teachers union to reopen high schools Monday
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Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union have landed a tentative agreement to reopen high schools, setting the stage for thousands of teenage students to return to classrooms Monday for the first time in more than a year.
The deal will still need to be approved by the union’s 25,000 teachers and staff. The CTU’s House of Delegates its 600-member governing body is set to convene Thursday afternoon to review the terms of the agreement and potentially set up a ratification vote by the full membership this weekend.
A CTU committee of rank-and-file teachers and staff who have been involved in bargaining has recommended approval of the agreement, the union said.