CHICAGO (CBS) — Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday signed laws establishing a completely elected faculty board to supervise the Chicago Public Faculties by 2027, beginning with a hybrid board that might be elected later this yr.
The laws, backed by Mayor Brandon Johnson, was authorized by each the Illinois Home and Illinois Senate earlier this month.
“I feel town of Chicago is doing the best factor. The Chicago Public Faculties might be higher led by people who find themselves consultant of the individuals, and never simply appointed by the mayor,” Pritzker stated on the time.
Whereas the laws would create the primary fully-elected faculty board in Chicago historical past, Johnson would retain management over the board for the subsequent few years. It requires a 21-member board to take workplace subsequent yr, with 10 members elected throughout nonpartisan elections in November, and 10 members and the board’s chair appointed by the mayor.Â
Johnson, a former CPS trainer and Chicago Academics Union organizer, appointed all seven members of the present Chicago Board of Training.
Candidates for elected faculty board seats on this yr’s election can start circulating nominating petitions on March 26.
The town could be divided into 10 districts, with one board member elected from every district and the mayor appointing the opposite member from every district. All 10 districts could be divided into two subdistricts, with the elected member and appointed member every required to dwell in a special subdistrict.
All 21 members, together with the chair, would formally take workplace in January with two-year phrases.
In 2026, voters would elect the complete faculty board, with elections held for all 20 subdistricts and a citywide election for the board president. Board members filling the expired time period of a board member elected to their seat in 2024 would serve a 4-year time period. Members filling the expired time period of a board member appointed to their seat in 2024 would serve a 2-year time period. The fully-elected board could be seated in January 2027.
Beginning in 2032, board seats for every subdistrict would come up for election thrice each 10 years; twice for 4-year phrases and as soon as for a 2-year time period.
The total map of 20 districts could be made up of seven majority-Black districts, six majority-Latino districts, 5 majority-White districts, and two districts by which no racial or ethnic group has a majority.
Gov. JB Pritzker signed comparable laws in 2021, regardless of opposition from then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Final fall, Illinois Senate President Don Harmon launched a plan to create a fully-elected faculty board beginning with this yr’s election, however he backed down from that proposal after Johnson backed the plan to begin with a hybrid board.
The laws Pritzker signed on Monday additionally units up ethics necessities and battle of curiosity provisions for varsity board members that mirror the principles for different elected faculty districts in Illinois.
The plan acquired some pushback from critics who claimed that, by delaying the transfer to a fully-elected faculty board, the legislation additional denies voters the chance to totally management the future of their faculties till 2026.
CHICAGO (CBS) — Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday signed laws establishing a completely elected faculty board to supervise the Chicago Public Faculties by 2027, beginning with a hybrid board that might be elected later this yr.
The laws, backed by Mayor Brandon Johnson, was authorized by each the Illinois Home and Illinois Senate earlier this month.
“I feel town of Chicago is doing the best factor. The Chicago Public Faculties might be higher led by people who find themselves consultant of the individuals, and never simply appointed by the mayor,” Pritzker stated on the time.
Whereas the laws would create the primary fully-elected faculty board in Chicago historical past, Johnson would retain management over the board for the subsequent few years. It requires a 21-member board to take workplace subsequent yr, with 10 members elected throughout nonpartisan elections in November, and 10 members and the board’s chair appointed by the mayor.Â
Johnson, a former CPS trainer and Chicago Academics Union organizer, appointed all seven members of the present Chicago Board of Training.
Candidates for elected faculty board seats on this yr’s election can start circulating nominating petitions on March 26.
The town could be divided into 10 districts, with one board member elected from every district and the mayor appointing the opposite member from every district. All 10 districts could be divided into two subdistricts, with the elected member and appointed member every required to dwell in a special subdistrict.
All 21 members, together with the chair, would formally take workplace in January with two-year phrases.
In 2026, voters would elect the complete faculty board, with elections held for all 20 subdistricts and a citywide election for the board president. Board members filling the expired time period of a board member elected to their seat in 2024 would serve a 4-year time period. Members filling the expired time period of a board member appointed to their seat in 2024 would serve a 2-year time period. The fully-elected board could be seated in January 2027.
Beginning in 2032, board seats for every subdistrict would come up for election thrice each 10 years; twice for 4-year phrases and as soon as for a 2-year time period.
The total map of 20 districts could be made up of seven majority-Black districts, six majority-Latino districts, 5 majority-White districts, and two districts by which no racial or ethnic group has a majority.
Gov. JB Pritzker signed comparable laws in 2021, regardless of opposition from then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Final fall, Illinois Senate President Don Harmon launched a plan to create a fully-elected faculty board beginning with this yr’s election, however he backed down from that proposal after Johnson backed the plan to begin with a hybrid board.
The laws Pritzker signed on Monday additionally units up ethics necessities and battle of curiosity provisions for varsity board members that mirror the principles for different elected faculty districts in Illinois.
The plan acquired some pushback from critics who claimed that, by delaying the transfer to a fully-elected faculty board, the legislation additional denies voters the chance to totally management the future of their faculties till 2026.
CHICAGO (CBS) — Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday signed laws establishing a completely elected faculty board to supervise the Chicago Public Faculties by 2027, beginning with a hybrid board that might be elected later this yr.
The laws, backed by Mayor Brandon Johnson, was authorized by each the Illinois Home and Illinois Senate earlier this month.
“I feel town of Chicago is doing the best factor. The Chicago Public Faculties might be higher led by people who find themselves consultant of the individuals, and never simply appointed by the mayor,” Pritzker stated on the time.
Whereas the laws would create the primary fully-elected faculty board in Chicago historical past, Johnson would retain management over the board for the subsequent few years. It requires a 21-member board to take workplace subsequent yr, with 10 members elected throughout nonpartisan elections in November, and 10 members and the board’s chair appointed by the mayor.Â
Johnson, a former CPS trainer and Chicago Academics Union organizer, appointed all seven members of the present Chicago Board of Training.
Candidates for elected faculty board seats on this yr’s election can start circulating nominating petitions on March 26.
The town could be divided into 10 districts, with one board member elected from every district and the mayor appointing the opposite member from every district. All 10 districts could be divided into two subdistricts, with the elected member and appointed member every required to dwell in a special subdistrict.
All 21 members, together with the chair, would formally take workplace in January with two-year phrases.
In 2026, voters would elect the complete faculty board, with elections held for all 20 subdistricts and a citywide election for the board president. Board members filling the expired time period of a board member elected to their seat in 2024 would serve a 4-year time period. Members filling the expired time period of a board member appointed to their seat in 2024 would serve a 2-year time period. The fully-elected board could be seated in January 2027.
Beginning in 2032, board seats for every subdistrict would come up for election thrice each 10 years; twice for 4-year phrases and as soon as for a 2-year time period.
The total map of 20 districts could be made up of seven majority-Black districts, six majority-Latino districts, 5 majority-White districts, and two districts by which no racial or ethnic group has a majority.
Gov. JB Pritzker signed comparable laws in 2021, regardless of opposition from then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Final fall, Illinois Senate President Don Harmon launched a plan to create a fully-elected faculty board beginning with this yr’s election, however he backed down from that proposal after Johnson backed the plan to begin with a hybrid board.
The laws Pritzker signed on Monday additionally units up ethics necessities and battle of curiosity provisions for varsity board members that mirror the principles for different elected faculty districts in Illinois.
The plan acquired some pushback from critics who claimed that, by delaying the transfer to a fully-elected faculty board, the legislation additional denies voters the chance to totally management the future of their faculties till 2026.
CHICAGO (CBS) — Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday signed laws establishing a completely elected faculty board to supervise the Chicago Public Faculties by 2027, beginning with a hybrid board that might be elected later this yr.
The laws, backed by Mayor Brandon Johnson, was authorized by each the Illinois Home and Illinois Senate earlier this month.
“I feel town of Chicago is doing the best factor. The Chicago Public Faculties might be higher led by people who find themselves consultant of the individuals, and never simply appointed by the mayor,” Pritzker stated on the time.
Whereas the laws would create the primary fully-elected faculty board in Chicago historical past, Johnson would retain management over the board for the subsequent few years. It requires a 21-member board to take workplace subsequent yr, with 10 members elected throughout nonpartisan elections in November, and 10 members and the board’s chair appointed by the mayor.Â
Johnson, a former CPS trainer and Chicago Academics Union organizer, appointed all seven members of the present Chicago Board of Training.
Candidates for elected faculty board seats on this yr’s election can start circulating nominating petitions on March 26.
The town could be divided into 10 districts, with one board member elected from every district and the mayor appointing the opposite member from every district. All 10 districts could be divided into two subdistricts, with the elected member and appointed member every required to dwell in a special subdistrict.
All 21 members, together with the chair, would formally take workplace in January with two-year phrases.
In 2026, voters would elect the complete faculty board, with elections held for all 20 subdistricts and a citywide election for the board president. Board members filling the expired time period of a board member elected to their seat in 2024 would serve a 4-year time period. Members filling the expired time period of a board member appointed to their seat in 2024 would serve a 2-year time period. The fully-elected board could be seated in January 2027.
Beginning in 2032, board seats for every subdistrict would come up for election thrice each 10 years; twice for 4-year phrases and as soon as for a 2-year time period.
The total map of 20 districts could be made up of seven majority-Black districts, six majority-Latino districts, 5 majority-White districts, and two districts by which no racial or ethnic group has a majority.
Gov. JB Pritzker signed comparable laws in 2021, regardless of opposition from then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Final fall, Illinois Senate President Don Harmon launched a plan to create a fully-elected faculty board beginning with this yr’s election, however he backed down from that proposal after Johnson backed the plan to begin with a hybrid board.
The laws Pritzker signed on Monday additionally units up ethics necessities and battle of curiosity provisions for varsity board members that mirror the principles for different elected faculty districts in Illinois.
The plan acquired some pushback from critics who claimed that, by delaying the transfer to a fully-elected faculty board, the legislation additional denies voters the chance to totally management the future of their faculties till 2026.
CHICAGO (CBS) — Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday signed laws establishing a completely elected faculty board to supervise the Chicago Public Faculties by 2027, beginning with a hybrid board that might be elected later this yr.
The laws, backed by Mayor Brandon Johnson, was authorized by each the Illinois Home and Illinois Senate earlier this month.
“I feel town of Chicago is doing the best factor. The Chicago Public Faculties might be higher led by people who find themselves consultant of the individuals, and never simply appointed by the mayor,” Pritzker stated on the time.
Whereas the laws would create the primary fully-elected faculty board in Chicago historical past, Johnson would retain management over the board for the subsequent few years. It requires a 21-member board to take workplace subsequent yr, with 10 members elected throughout nonpartisan elections in November, and 10 members and the board’s chair appointed by the mayor.Â
Johnson, a former CPS trainer and Chicago Academics Union organizer, appointed all seven members of the present Chicago Board of Training.
Candidates for elected faculty board seats on this yr’s election can start circulating nominating petitions on March 26.
The town could be divided into 10 districts, with one board member elected from every district and the mayor appointing the opposite member from every district. All 10 districts could be divided into two subdistricts, with the elected member and appointed member every required to dwell in a special subdistrict.
All 21 members, together with the chair, would formally take workplace in January with two-year phrases.
In 2026, voters would elect the complete faculty board, with elections held for all 20 subdistricts and a citywide election for the board president. Board members filling the expired time period of a board member elected to their seat in 2024 would serve a 4-year time period. Members filling the expired time period of a board member appointed to their seat in 2024 would serve a 2-year time period. The fully-elected board could be seated in January 2027.
Beginning in 2032, board seats for every subdistrict would come up for election thrice each 10 years; twice for 4-year phrases and as soon as for a 2-year time period.
The total map of 20 districts could be made up of seven majority-Black districts, six majority-Latino districts, 5 majority-White districts, and two districts by which no racial or ethnic group has a majority.
Gov. JB Pritzker signed comparable laws in 2021, regardless of opposition from then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Final fall, Illinois Senate President Don Harmon launched a plan to create a fully-elected faculty board beginning with this yr’s election, however he backed down from that proposal after Johnson backed the plan to begin with a hybrid board.
The laws Pritzker signed on Monday additionally units up ethics necessities and battle of curiosity provisions for varsity board members that mirror the principles for different elected faculty districts in Illinois.
The plan acquired some pushback from critics who claimed that, by delaying the transfer to a fully-elected faculty board, the legislation additional denies voters the chance to totally management the future of their faculties till 2026.
CHICAGO (CBS) — Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday signed laws establishing a completely elected faculty board to supervise the Chicago Public Faculties by 2027, beginning with a hybrid board that might be elected later this yr.
The laws, backed by Mayor Brandon Johnson, was authorized by each the Illinois Home and Illinois Senate earlier this month.
“I feel town of Chicago is doing the best factor. The Chicago Public Faculties might be higher led by people who find themselves consultant of the individuals, and never simply appointed by the mayor,” Pritzker stated on the time.
Whereas the laws would create the primary fully-elected faculty board in Chicago historical past, Johnson would retain management over the board for the subsequent few years. It requires a 21-member board to take workplace subsequent yr, with 10 members elected throughout nonpartisan elections in November, and 10 members and the board’s chair appointed by the mayor.Â
Johnson, a former CPS trainer and Chicago Academics Union organizer, appointed all seven members of the present Chicago Board of Training.
Candidates for elected faculty board seats on this yr’s election can start circulating nominating petitions on March 26.
The town could be divided into 10 districts, with one board member elected from every district and the mayor appointing the opposite member from every district. All 10 districts could be divided into two subdistricts, with the elected member and appointed member every required to dwell in a special subdistrict.
All 21 members, together with the chair, would formally take workplace in January with two-year phrases.
In 2026, voters would elect the complete faculty board, with elections held for all 20 subdistricts and a citywide election for the board president. Board members filling the expired time period of a board member elected to their seat in 2024 would serve a 4-year time period. Members filling the expired time period of a board member appointed to their seat in 2024 would serve a 2-year time period. The fully-elected board could be seated in January 2027.
Beginning in 2032, board seats for every subdistrict would come up for election thrice each 10 years; twice for 4-year phrases and as soon as for a 2-year time period.
The total map of 20 districts could be made up of seven majority-Black districts, six majority-Latino districts, 5 majority-White districts, and two districts by which no racial or ethnic group has a majority.
Gov. JB Pritzker signed comparable laws in 2021, regardless of opposition from then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Final fall, Illinois Senate President Don Harmon launched a plan to create a fully-elected faculty board beginning with this yr’s election, however he backed down from that proposal after Johnson backed the plan to begin with a hybrid board.
The laws Pritzker signed on Monday additionally units up ethics necessities and battle of curiosity provisions for varsity board members that mirror the principles for different elected faculty districts in Illinois.
The plan acquired some pushback from critics who claimed that, by delaying the transfer to a fully-elected faculty board, the legislation additional denies voters the chance to totally management the future of their faculties till 2026.
CHICAGO (CBS) — Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday signed laws establishing a completely elected faculty board to supervise the Chicago Public Faculties by 2027, beginning with a hybrid board that might be elected later this yr.
The laws, backed by Mayor Brandon Johnson, was authorized by each the Illinois Home and Illinois Senate earlier this month.
“I feel town of Chicago is doing the best factor. The Chicago Public Faculties might be higher led by people who find themselves consultant of the individuals, and never simply appointed by the mayor,” Pritzker stated on the time.
Whereas the laws would create the primary fully-elected faculty board in Chicago historical past, Johnson would retain management over the board for the subsequent few years. It requires a 21-member board to take workplace subsequent yr, with 10 members elected throughout nonpartisan elections in November, and 10 members and the board’s chair appointed by the mayor.Â
Johnson, a former CPS trainer and Chicago Academics Union organizer, appointed all seven members of the present Chicago Board of Training.
Candidates for elected faculty board seats on this yr’s election can start circulating nominating petitions on March 26.
The town could be divided into 10 districts, with one board member elected from every district and the mayor appointing the opposite member from every district. All 10 districts could be divided into two subdistricts, with the elected member and appointed member every required to dwell in a special subdistrict.
All 21 members, together with the chair, would formally take workplace in January with two-year phrases.
In 2026, voters would elect the complete faculty board, with elections held for all 20 subdistricts and a citywide election for the board president. Board members filling the expired time period of a board member elected to their seat in 2024 would serve a 4-year time period. Members filling the expired time period of a board member appointed to their seat in 2024 would serve a 2-year time period. The fully-elected board could be seated in January 2027.
Beginning in 2032, board seats for every subdistrict would come up for election thrice each 10 years; twice for 4-year phrases and as soon as for a 2-year time period.
The total map of 20 districts could be made up of seven majority-Black districts, six majority-Latino districts, 5 majority-White districts, and two districts by which no racial or ethnic group has a majority.
Gov. JB Pritzker signed comparable laws in 2021, regardless of opposition from then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Final fall, Illinois Senate President Don Harmon launched a plan to create a fully-elected faculty board beginning with this yr’s election, however he backed down from that proposal after Johnson backed the plan to begin with a hybrid board.
The laws Pritzker signed on Monday additionally units up ethics necessities and battle of curiosity provisions for varsity board members that mirror the principles for different elected faculty districts in Illinois.
The plan acquired some pushback from critics who claimed that, by delaying the transfer to a fully-elected faculty board, the legislation additional denies voters the chance to totally management the future of their faculties till 2026.
CHICAGO (CBS) — Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday signed laws establishing a completely elected faculty board to supervise the Chicago Public Faculties by 2027, beginning with a hybrid board that might be elected later this yr.
The laws, backed by Mayor Brandon Johnson, was authorized by each the Illinois Home and Illinois Senate earlier this month.
“I feel town of Chicago is doing the best factor. The Chicago Public Faculties might be higher led by people who find themselves consultant of the individuals, and never simply appointed by the mayor,” Pritzker stated on the time.
Whereas the laws would create the primary fully-elected faculty board in Chicago historical past, Johnson would retain management over the board for the subsequent few years. It requires a 21-member board to take workplace subsequent yr, with 10 members elected throughout nonpartisan elections in November, and 10 members and the board’s chair appointed by the mayor.Â
Johnson, a former CPS trainer and Chicago Academics Union organizer, appointed all seven members of the present Chicago Board of Training.
Candidates for elected faculty board seats on this yr’s election can start circulating nominating petitions on March 26.
The town could be divided into 10 districts, with one board member elected from every district and the mayor appointing the opposite member from every district. All 10 districts could be divided into two subdistricts, with the elected member and appointed member every required to dwell in a special subdistrict.
All 21 members, together with the chair, would formally take workplace in January with two-year phrases.
In 2026, voters would elect the complete faculty board, with elections held for all 20 subdistricts and a citywide election for the board president. Board members filling the expired time period of a board member elected to their seat in 2024 would serve a 4-year time period. Members filling the expired time period of a board member appointed to their seat in 2024 would serve a 2-year time period. The fully-elected board could be seated in January 2027.
Beginning in 2032, board seats for every subdistrict would come up for election thrice each 10 years; twice for 4-year phrases and as soon as for a 2-year time period.
The total map of 20 districts could be made up of seven majority-Black districts, six majority-Latino districts, 5 majority-White districts, and two districts by which no racial or ethnic group has a majority.
Gov. JB Pritzker signed comparable laws in 2021, regardless of opposition from then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Final fall, Illinois Senate President Don Harmon launched a plan to create a fully-elected faculty board beginning with this yr’s election, however he backed down from that proposal after Johnson backed the plan to begin with a hybrid board.
The laws Pritzker signed on Monday additionally units up ethics necessities and battle of curiosity provisions for varsity board members that mirror the principles for different elected faculty districts in Illinois.
The plan acquired some pushback from critics who claimed that, by delaying the transfer to a fully-elected faculty board, the legislation additional denies voters the chance to totally management the future of their faculties till 2026.