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«We want to see them learning about important health issues, but I think they'll also figure out that when you get this little bundle of joy, there's a price to pay,» says Ray Carrell, president of Amundsen's local school council and the father of five daughters: three Amundsen alumnae and two current students.

It «s the same problem that stymied local school councils that wanted to meet in their own schools after classroom hours.

-- CPS should support a Local School Council in every school with training by experienced community organizations.

-- School actions should require approval by the Local School Councils comprised of parents, community residents, teachers and school staff.

Although parents can't control those factors directly, we can help by staying informed and involved in the systems that influence our children's school experiences, from voting for local school councils to being aware of national education policy.

During his time as schools chief, he took on the reform groups, the local school councils, the education schools, the state board of education, and the education research community.

And Chicago's experiment with local school councils suggests the limits of relying on parent input.

The powerful local school councils, a vestige of Chicago's 1980s reform approach, «site - based management,» remained in place.

By contrast, in Chicago each individual local school council makes its own hiring decision.

Bernard Lacour, a longtime school reformer who works with local school councils and consults with New Leaders on placement issues, believes that the obstacles thrown up by council dynamics and the predisposition for experience may be exacerbated by system politics, the advantages of incumbency, and fear among local councils that their candidates will be challenged by the board of education and their authority taken away from them.

A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court's finding that minority parents on a local school council in Chicago engineered the firing of their school's principal because he is white.

«Local school councils tend to be surprisingly conservative.»

The most radical approach ever tried in the modern U.S.A. was probably Chicago's experiment with «Local School Councils» in the early 90s.

Those local school councils have been stripped of much of their power, but some charter schools and private schools still put parents on their boards, which is an avenue for parent voice and engagement.

In Chicago and Kentucky, local school councils were created to improve educational outcomes for students in their respective jurisdictions.

In this webinar, you will hear how the two different models of local school councils emerged and how their approaches to involving parents in school reform differ.

Local school councils choose principals, staff, and school policy.

When will the advocates of school - based management learn that education bureaucracies will not devolve without a fundamental change in authority that extends beyond creating local school councils or adding a few more prerogatives for principals?

Under the banner of «community empowerment,» each local school council assembled the principal, four parents, four teachers, a noncertified staff member, a community representative, a corporate - partner representative, and, in the high schools, two students.

The groups also are considering a number of other amendments to the law that would strengthen the power of the 539 local school councils and clarify their...

Chicago has elected local school councils every other year since 1989.

The new law created an 11 - member local school council at each of the district's 550 schools.

The reform strategy must be one that was devised at the school level — by the PTA, the local school council, Title One committee, or local governing group made up of parents at the school level — and they must have flexibility in developing the strategy that best suits the needs of their school.

Parents across the U.S. want a real, substantial role in all decisions that affect our children's schools, such as the one provided by Chicago's local school council system.

I remember being elected to the first local school council at Field.

Next Saturday join parents, community memebrs, and teachers for the Citywide Local School Council Summit.

Parents Across America has taken a position against parent trigger laws and in favor of local school council - style parent empowerment, which can actually improve schools.

She is the parent of two Chicago Public School graduates, a veteran elected local school council member, and writer of the blog, PURE Thoughts, which covers key education issues.

Rahm and his cronies ignore and disrespect elected, parent - run local school councils while pushing education privatizers» phony «parent empowerment» programs like school choice and the parent trigger.

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Please sign on here (as individuals and, where appropriate, as organizations such as Local School Councils, etc.) Here's what and why:

It's time to start focusing on these students now, to stop harming more students, and to focus back on our neighborhood schools, working with their local school councils, and strengthening the core of the Chicago Public School system.

In Chicago, state law places significant authority in the hands of local school councils and defines their makeup: six parents, two community representatives, two teachers, and the principal.

The article ends with a reference to the positive model of Chicago's local school councils, and quotes Parents Across America co-founder, Leonie Haimson:

I just read all the way through a May 2012 Public Agenda report called «Community Responses to School Reform in Chicago» and was surprised by at least one of the report's recommendations for more effectively collaborating with the community in school reform: that CPS «consider re-engaging and strengthening the capacity of Local School Council (LSC) members» by «improving the way new members are educated and prepared for their role and responsibilities and by using this structure as a means to reach residents in local neighborhoods.»

At the end of the press conference, Jeanette Taylor, president of her Local School Council and leader with the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, demanded a meeting with the Mayor immediately on behalf of the coalition.

You were responsible for marginalizing parent - majority elected, empowered local school councils in Chicago and replacing them with administration - appointed advisory bodies.

effective elementary schools have dedicated strong Local School Councils, strong but inclusive principal leadership, effective teachers who are engaged in school - wide improvement, active parents, active community members, and students deeply engaged in learning and school improvement.

On the eve of a potentially catastrophic Board of Education vote to turnaround ten more Chicago schools, the school reform research group Designs for Change has released a report showing that school turnarounds are not worth the extra expense, and that the unheralded reforms brought about under the authority of parent - led, democratically - elected local school councils have been far more effective.

«Thank you to the hundreds that came out in the cold to support us and show that they care about our kids,» said Piccolo parent and Local School Council Chair Latrice Watkins.

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In 1988, state legislation created elected local school councils (LSCs) for every school in Chicago that consisted of six parents, two community members, two teachers, the principal, and — in high schools — one student.

They must involve educators, parents, students and the local community; and they must use participatory processes such as local school councils, annual reports and meetings to review school progress.

These effective elementary schools have dedicated strong Local School Councils, strong but inclusive principal leadership, effective teachers who are engaged in school - wide improvement, active parents, active community members, and students deeply engaged in learning and school improvement.

Lewis also blasted CPS» ever - changing probation criteria that have put nearly 300 schools in jeopardy of school actions and have rendered their Local School Councils inoperable.

This study indicated that the high - poverty schools achieving the highest reading scores were governed by active Local School Councils who chose their principals, and had experienced unionized teachers.

There's been a lot of hubbub about the Wendell Smith Local School Council voting to turn the CPS elementary school into a charter school.

Thank you for taking this opportunity to empower educators, parents and local school councils and to end arbitrary facilities decisions.

27a — 8 In the case of a proposal to establish a charter school by converting an existing public school or attendance center to charter school status, evidence that the proposed formation of the charter school has received majority support from certified teachers and from parents and guardians in the school or attendance center affected by the proposed charter, and, if applicable, from a local school council, shall be demonstrated by a petition in support of the charter school signed by certified teachers and a petition in support of the charter school signed by parents and guardians and, if applicable, by a vote of the local school council held at a public meeting.

As a former local school council member and Chicago Public School parent of twins who attend an IB middle - school, Middle - Years Programme (MYP), I've seen what goes into an IB - focused education.