On Monday night, neighborhood activists from Cooper Park and surrounder areas met with School Board Directors Jeff Spence and Terry Falk at the Enderis Park Fieldhouse, where petitions were signed over the weekend supporting a merger of the program at 68th Street School - which the district will close at the end of the year - with nearby 81st Street School. Here is an update from a community member working to make the merger a reality.
There were 20 items on last night's Innovation and School Reform Committee meeting agenda. Most were action items on closing or moving schools and on renewing - or not - school charters. Eight hours after it began at 5:30 p.m. the meeting ended with the bulk of the administrations proposals being endorsed by the committee.
School board elections take place on April and in order to help you make a more informed decision at the polls in this race, which often flies under the radar, we've asked each of the 11 candidates to respond to a list of questions and we will run them in the weeks leading up to the election. Now we hear from Susan L. Schmidt, who faces Terry Falk and write-in candidate Ken Kraucanas, in a race for the board's sole at-large seat.
School board elections take place on April and in order to help you make a more informed decision at the polls in this race, which often flies under the radar, we've asked each of the 11 candidates to respond to a list of questions and we will run them in the weeks leading up to the election.Today we hear from Terrence Falk, who is currently on the board representing District 8 on the South Side. Falk is running for the board's at-large seat, against Susan Schmidt and Ken Kraucanas.
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