Don’t let the confusing political back and forth obscure what really happened last week in Springfield. House lawmakers voted 92-8 to derail Mayor Johnson’s education agenda.
Stacy Davis Gates, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, speaks about contract negotiations outside Richards Career Academy on April 16, 2024. On Thursday, the House voted 92-8 for Rep. Margaret Croke’s bill that essentially would forestall any major changes to the city’s selective-enrollment schools until there’s a fully elected school board in Chicago. That won’t happen until 2027, the year — coincidentally or not — that Mayor Brandon Johnson will be up for reelection.
Adding to the skepticism of suspicious parents, the board has dramatically overhauled annual budgeting for CPS schools. Broadly speaking, the board is doing away with the past method, which allocated a substantial chunk of each school’s annual funding based on the number of students attending the school, and instead is striving to make struggling neighborhood schools more attractive options for families by beefing up their staffing and programming.
But the short-term thinking has backfired. Croke and Pritzker both are justifying their position that major school changes — like a complete overhaul of the selective-enrollment process in Chicago — should wait for a fully elected school board. After all, that’s the democratic thing to do — and the reasoning is difficult to argue against. It also means the 92 lawmakers who voted for the bill don’t have to say openly they don’t trust Johnson and Davis Gates on this issue.
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