200 precincts in Chicago get to vote for an elected school board.
Last June hundreds of activists knocked on door and gathered enough signatures to put an advisory referendum on the November 6th ballot for an elected school board. Here we are on a hot day in Logan Square.
Only the Illinois legislature can give the people of Chicago their right to elect our own school board.
We get to elect the people who oversee our water supply, so electing our own school board members would seem to be a no brainer.
Yet the Mayor wants to keep hold on to his ability to pick his own million dollar friends to run things down at 125