Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's request puts his full support behind the Chicago Teachers Union to elect 10 school board member seats and appoint the other 11.
Live streaming newscasts, breaking news, weather & original, local programming.A week after Mayor Brandon Johnson sent Illinois Senate President Don Harmon a letter urging him to support the election of only 10 of 21 school board seats this November, the Oak Park Democrat on Friday filed legislation with the mayor's preferred plan.
The 2021 law that created an elected school board for Chicago included the election of 10 board members in November 2024 and the appointment of 11 board members - including the board president - by the mayor. The first elected board members would serve four-year terms, and voters would be able to choose who should fill the appointed seats in 2026 to create a fully elected board in January 2027.
An amendment filed by Harmon during the veto session last year would have allowed the board to be fully elected as soon as this fall by splitting up memberships to two and four-year terms. Johnson last week sent Harmon a letter saying the 2021 school board legislation "clearly communicated to interested parties the timeline and structure of the initial elections, thereby informing their plans for participation."Johnson was an organizer for the CTU when Springfield passed the original legislation. The union had pushed for a fully elected board as soon as possible but compromised with a transition period that Harmon supported.
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