Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Ten thousand sign to put elected school board on the November ballot. « Fred Klonsky

Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Ten thousand sign to put elected school board on the November ballot. « Fred Klonsky:

Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Ten thousand sign to put elected school board on the November ballot.

by Fred Klonsky

Jitu Brown, Kenwood community organizer and leader of the petition drive for an elected school board.
In spite of  attempts by aldermanic supporters of Mayor Emanuel like 49th Alderman Joe Moore to block it, the idea of an elected school board will be on the ballot in Chicago in November.
CODE, Communities Organized for Democracy in Education, submitted  ten thousand signatures to the Board of Elections today.
It is another blow to the ambitions of our Republicrat Mayor and to the entire notion of mayoral control, an idea