At the risk of sounding like Richard Nixon, I want to make something perfectly clear . . .
Oh, I know that sounds cynical. And reading it, you might conclude that I must have spent the last 40 years of my life following Chicago politics to be so jaded.
Take your pick, Chicago.
His bill—sponsored in the house by state representative Delia Ramirez—would divide Chicago into 20 districts. Each district would elect one school board member. And there’d be a school board president elected citywide.
I like to point out that Chicago’s school system is already very much politicized. It’s largely a political tool used by mayors to make them look good.
As such, mayors want rubber-stampers on the school board so that there’s no opposition from CPS when money gets diverted from the schools for various development schemes.
