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Mayor Lori Lightfoot will replace entire Chicago school board
Chicago Tribune ^ | 5/23/2019 | Hannah Leone, Juan Perez Jr, and Gregory Pratt

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education
KEYWORDS: chicago; education; illinois
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1 posted on 05/23/2019 6:38:26 AM PDT by simpson96
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SUCKERS!.............................
2 posted on 05/23/2019 6:41:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: simpson96

“led by those with different perspectives throughout the district”

Anyone care to guess what the lesbo Mayor means by that? Safe bet it’s nothing good.


3 posted on 05/23/2019 6:43:14 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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Who knows if her reforms extreme actions will be good or bad? Something has to be done to save Chicago, and anything that isn’t extreme won’t do it.


4 posted on 05/23/2019 6:43:39 AM PDT by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: simpson96

So will this be good news for the students and their parents?

Or will it be the ‘SOS’ with different people at the top of that Titanic? The real focus will be realigning the deck chairs and students while the schools continue to go to hell.


5 posted on 05/23/2019 6:45:16 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (You can't normalize the type of behavior, the left is trying to normalize, because it isn't normal!)
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To: simpson96

OMG, I would love to see just who she chooses.


6 posted on 05/23/2019 6:46:09 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: grania

“Who knows if her reforms extreme actions will be good or bad? Something has to be done to save Chicago, and anything that isn’t extreme won’t do it.”

Count me as highly skeptical. A city tearing itself apart elects an aggrieved black lesbian to fix things. Good luck with that. I suspect Chicago is well on their way to making Detroit look like a garden spot.


7 posted on 05/23/2019 6:46:58 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: simpson96

Headline on May 23, 2021: White flight prompts crisis in Chicago Public Schools.


8 posted on 05/23/2019 6:48:24 AM PDT by BadLands59
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Here comes the mandatory LGBQ classes in elementary school. Sounds ridiculous, but you know it’s on the table.


9 posted on 05/23/2019 6:48:58 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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To: BBQToadRibs

Bring on the bar scene from Starwars.


10 posted on 05/23/2019 6:54:47 AM PDT by Oldexpat (Jobs Not Mobs)
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To: grania

And Chicago must be saved...why?


11 posted on 05/23/2019 6:56:11 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: simpson96

After my last trip to Chicago and watching the local news, I have a new name for the city:

Wakanda


12 posted on 05/23/2019 6:58:42 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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It doesn't sound ridiculous at all.
Many Freepers were in fact okay with politicians who implement this and just a few years ago they insisted that if you wouldn't vote for a politician who implemented radical sex teaching for grade school kids then you wanted Obama.

So yeah, the opposition to that is not as strong as it should be.

13 posted on 05/23/2019 7:00:15 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: brownsfan

Anything of the Devil is not going to be good. On its face, it might appear good, but 1 John 3:4-10 everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him, there is no sin. No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. ...


14 posted on 05/23/2019 7:06:30 AM PDT by ivory49
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To: simpson96

Jussie Smollett needs a job.....


15 posted on 05/23/2019 7:08:32 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: cuban leaf

I have a new name for the city: Wakanda


I’m sorry, but the name’s already been taken. My wife’s hometown about 30 miles away in Lake County is Wauconda.


16 posted on 05/23/2019 7:09:44 AM PDT by hanamizu
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Lost in other priorities is the main function needed from an elected official ...... to manage money well


17 posted on 05/23/2019 7:11:14 AM PDT by jcon40 (The other post before yours really nails it for me. I have been a DOithS / PC guy forever and alway)
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To: MrEdd
And Chicago must be saved...why?

Because it's become an issue of not if but when the US is going to come tumblin' down. The more areas that can fend for themselves, the better.

18 posted on 05/23/2019 7:18:33 AM PDT by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: simpson96
Replacing elected officials with a hand picked board of "tolerant", diverse and screaming Liberal board members? How wonderful.

I can't wait to see the demographic make up of that group.

19 posted on 05/23/2019 7:18:36 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Elitist Liberals have no idea the hunger and strength of the beast they have uncaged.)
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I’d like to see the City of Chicago treated like Washington DC and become a ‘District’ that has no power over the otherwise FINE people of Illinois!

I’m also thinking that each STATE have an ‘Electoral College’ of sorts so We The People CAN have a VOICE versus the Blue Enclaves that are destroying out various states.

Meh. I can dream, can’t I? ;)


20 posted on 05/23/2019 7:20:00 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin ("And she and Billie Jeff was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge...")
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