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* Greg Hinz on some new push-back against Sen. Rob Martwick’s elected school board bill… In a letter to Senate President Don Harmon, House Speaker Chris Welch and leaders of the Latino and Black caucuses, groups including the Chicago Urban League and Latino Policy Forum stop short of endorsing a bill proposed by Lightfoot to elect only a few members of the board, allowing the mayor to continue to appoint most. But the letters emphasize the importance of certain clauses that are in Lightfoot’s bill, but not the CTU’s. Included are steps to help undocumented immigrants have a voice, li...

Illinois Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford really has her work cut out for her if she wants to forge a compromise on an elected Chicago school board. Lightford agreed to become the sponsor of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s alternative school board proposal last week. Sen. Rob Martwick (D-Chicago) has been pushing a bill for years that would elect 21 school board members, which have long been appointed by the city’s mayor. Leader Lightford has a reputation among the education establishment for being an honest broker and, frankly, she excels at negotiations like this, but this one w...

Seth Perlman/AP file An elected school board in Chicago and expanding fertility treatment coverage to include same-sex couples and women over 35 were among the measures that advanced in the General Assembly Wednesday, the second day legislators met in Springfield — and virtually — for session. House members voted in favor of legislation that would amend the state’s insurance code to provide coverage for the “diagnosis and treatment of infertility … without discrimination on the basis of age, ancestry, color, disability, domestic partner status, gender, gender expression, gender iden...

Mayor Haircut about to be rolled again. The Empress has no clothes An elected school board means that CPS can be run as effectively as the rest of Chicago. /s/ The irony of Lightfoot working against her campaign promise (albeit a compromise) is so Lori Lightfoot and her ineptitude at both governing and politics. Reality? Things like that happen with no allies. Pathetic. Rob Martwick kneecaps property taxpayers once again doing the bidding of public sector unions === Rob Martwick=== Are you also against democracy? Seems so. ===Why can’t my daughter return to high school? Three words: Chicago...

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 ...