The in box. In spite of the best efforts of the CPS board to obstruct, 6,500 sign up to run for Local School Councils. « Fred Klonsky

The in box. In spite of the best efforts of the CPS board to obstruct, 6,500 sign up to run for Local School Councils. « Fred Klonsky:

The in box. In spite of the best efforts of the CPS board to obstruct, 6,500 sign up to run for Local School Councils.

by Fred Klonsky

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Don Moore 312-236-7252, ext 236
donmoore@designsforchange.org
CHICAGO, IL (APRIL 15, 2012). About 6,500 candidates signed up to run in Chicago’s Local School Councils election this week, primarily as a result of an extended candidate recruitment deadline demanded by the 28 organizational members of the Coalition to Strengthen Local School Councils.
Local School Council elections will be held at nearly 540 schools with an LSC, from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 18 in elementary schools, and from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 19 in high schools. Parents whose child attends a school or community members who live in a school’s attendance area are eligible to vote for parent and community LSC representatives.
This is the largest municipal election in the United States, and chooses the nation’s largest