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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Gathering signatures for an elected school board. « Fred Klonsky

Gathering signatures for an elected school board. « Fred Klonsky:


Gathering signatures for an elected school board.

Gathering at the Logan Square monument to collect signatures to put an elected school board on the ballot in November.
Chicago is the only city in the entire state of Illinois that doesn’t allow its citizens to elect  their school board.
We can vote for the guys who filter our water.
Our ballot is often filled with dozens of names of people running for one kind of judge or another.
When I go sit at the voting machine and the judge list comes up I can either skip them or bring an endorsement list with me from one group or another. Many Chicago voters choose on the basis of the ethnicity of the