Posted on 05/23/2019 6:38:26 AM PDT by simpson96
Newly inaugurated Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who endorsed an elected school board on the campaign trail, announced Wednesday she will overhaul the seven-member board of education.
The announcement came less than an hour after Board President Frank Clark told fellow board members at their regular monthly meeting that he is stepping down.
Lightfoot’s office said the names of the new school board members will be announced in the coming days and that they will be sworn in June 26. The mayor said in a statement she wants to ensure that “decisions made on behalf of our children are led by those with different perspectives throughout the district” as she prepares to “deliver bold reforms to our public school system.”
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It’s ok. It’s spelled differently. :D
Does the mayor have the authority to simply change the selection process and “fire” elected officials?
Did the municipalities around Detroit become more safe, or less safe when Detroit proper collapsed?
Watching that was the impetus of my question, and is also the basis for my pronouncement now that the empirical evidence is contrary to your reply.
The surrounding areas will be safer if the festering swamp is allowed to dry out.
“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see...”
“You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?”
“No,” said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, “nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.”
“Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.”
“I did,” said Ford. “It is.”
“So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t people get rid of the lizards?”
“It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.”
“You mean they actually vote for the lizards?”
“Oh yes,” said Ford with a shrug, “of course.”
“But,” said Arthur, going for the big one again, “why?”
“Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?”
“What?”
“I said,” said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, “have you got any gin?”
“I’ll look. Tell me about the lizards.”
Ford shrugged again.
“Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happenned to them,” he said. “They’re completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone’s got to say it.”
“But that’s terrible,” said Arthur.
“Listen, bud,” said Ford, “if I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say ‘That’s terrible’ I wouldn’t be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.”
My brother, who lives in Illinois, says what people of downstate Illinois want most is a divorce from Chicago.
Translation, “I need to get my people in to funnel taxpayer money to my cronies.”
If Romney is a lizard, that could explain a lot actually.
Not just him...
What she means is that the entire school board will consist of perverts and deviates.
Local school district boards are elected not city wide. The mayor appoints the CPS superintendent.
That action calls for this being printed up with the tag line added below VOTE DEMOCRAT before printing.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3749188/posts#40
True, but Romney has been successfully implementing that crap at a high level.
Can't be said loud enough.
Problem is they give us members of the Kasick wing of the Fascist Party. They call it "free enterprise", but it's really their deep pocket donors raking off megadollars from government programs.
one white lesbian and the rest black leftists..
Hard to see a problem, it’s government schools, they answer to government. If people don’t like them, they can exercise options.
Let me guess: all black gays.
Meet the new boss...
Some decent people live here.
All the progtards seem to want an elected school board, the obviously reason I assume is so the teacher’s unions can buy the elections.
Move out to the suburbs.
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