Overwhelming majorities of both houses of the Illinois legislature passed bills to restore an elected board to Chicago.
Chicago is the only district in the state that does not elect its board.
The different bills must be reconciled.
However, there’s a trick clause in the Senate bill.
The Senate bill says that the first election would be held in 2023, at the end of Rahm Emanuel’s third term (which he has not yet won.) He is in the middle of his second term.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
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Where is the real La Femme Nikita when we need her.
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Yahoo! Chicago has been under mayoral control for 22 years and an elected school board will not really be “restored,” because this is a first for the city, because it has actually NEVER had an elected school board. It’s about time!
The Illinois state legislature also just approved a a gradual increase of the minimum wage to $15 over the next five years. I don’t know if either of these bills are veto-proof, but GOP billionaire businessman Governor Bruce Rauner is no friend of the working class. When he first ran for governor, he said he wanted to ELIMINATE the minimum wage. That was very controversial and unpopular so he backed off.
However, there’s no evidence that Rauner has since grown a heart, because he has been holding the state budget hostage for a couple years, which resulted in massive cuts to services in social programs for the most needy and job losses for many who work in those programs, from homemaker services and Meals on Wheels for disabled seniors to staff at state universities. It got so bad that the Early Childhood Education program serving low income children where Rauner’s own wife is the director sued him! (It’s been reported that billionaire JB Pritzker bailed them out.) So, you’ve got to pray real hard that these bills actually come to fruition under this governor.
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WHY the assumption that Emannuel will be elected for a third term?
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That election will be rigged. We heard it from the Kremlin’s Agent Orange when he said if he lost to Hillary, the election was rigged but if he won, it was okay if the election was rigged.
He admitted, sort of, that the election was rigged when he said, “I will totally accept the results … if I win” after he repeatedly said the election was rigged if he lost.
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Good question.
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I think Chicago is education’s bird in the mine.
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What about New Orleans? The battle to get back the public schools that were taken away from the city without any say from the people and given to corporate charters rages on. If the people of New Orleans get their community-based, democratic, transparent, non-profit, traditional public schools back, that would be a bigger victory, I think.
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Our schools have been reduced to cash cows. Sick,
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The Devil is in the details in Chicago?
I thought he was at City Hall, with his doppelganger infesting the Governor’s mansion in Springfield.
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