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Some Chicago school councils tasked with voting on police in schools aren’t following the rules By YANA KUNICHOFF & PASCAL SABINO Chalkbeat Chicago & Block Club Chicago
As young protesters in Chicago joined those across the country calling for an end to school policing, district leaders hastily called upon local school councils to decide whether to keep police on campuses and gave them an Aug. 14 deadline to make the decision. But the process so far underscores longstanding issues around the transparency of the groups, how much they are supported and trained, and lackluster participation. Reporting from 16 schools that so far voted on or discussed the issue shows that some councils failed to post meetings publicly or follow other rules that allow parents and community members to participate. Others tried to limit media access or public discussion. Last week alone, at least one council voted to retain police in schools, but the meeting wasn’t posted publicly online. Another voted before allowing public comment, and a third was in violation of rules that require the councils to place all planned votes on their agenda and post minutes online after meetings. One council ended its meeting abruptly after a reporter logged on and tried to identify herself, saying it would continue the meeting privately at another time. By the middle of the week, Chicago Public Schools had released a toolkit and held an informational meeting in an effort to clarify the rules. But the district does not centrally track the dates of meetings, times or agendas, leaving parents, students, and often reporters to rely on the record-keeping at individual schools. That often means scrambling to find a meeting, or struggling to figure out how and why a decision was made. According to the state’s law establishing the See SCHOOL COUNCILS on page 8
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HERO MOURNED: President Barack Obama hugs Rep. John Lewis after his introduction during the event to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday and the Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches, at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., March 7, 2015. (Caption via Wikimedia)
Area leaders honor late John Lewis Congressman Danny K. Davis recalled Lewis as ‘the essence of decency’
By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
Tributes from local lawmakers at various levels of government have been pouring in for John Lewis — the longtime Georgia Congressman who was a constant presence in the modern civil rights struggle. Lewis died on July 17 from pancreatic cancer. He was 80 years old. As a college student in Nashville, Lewis helped organize the sit-ins that prompted local officials to desegregate lunch counters. From there, he joined the
Freedom Riders on life-threatening bus trips across the country that helped pave the way for the effective desegregation of interstate travel. As a 23-year-old leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Lewis was among the “Big Six” organizational leaders who planned the March on Washington in 1963. “We’re tired of being beaten by policemen. We’re tired of seeing our people locked up in jails over and over again, and then you holler, ‘Be patient.’ How long can we be patient? We want our freedom, and we want it now,” Lewis
exclaimed in his speech at the historic demonstration — a speech that he was asked to tone down by other organizers who thought his original draft was too radical. “By and large, American politics is dominated by politicians who build their careers on immoral compromises and ally themselves with open forms of political, economic, and social exploitation,” he said that day in 1963. Lewis was perhaps most famous for
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Women’s shelter named for alderman gets zoning approval Emma’s House, named after Ald. Emma Mitts (37th), gets green light to open at 322 N. Latrobe Ave. By IGOR STUDENKOV Contributing Reporter
On July 17, the city’s Zoning Board of Appeals approved a zone permit required for Samantha Bates, of Austin, to operate Emma’s House — a shelter for women recovering from drug addiction. The shelter is named after Ald. Emma Mitts (37th), a major supporter of the project. Bates, an addiction recovery coach, said during the July 17 zoning board meeting that many West Side women who go through rehab don’t have a place in their community where they can avoid temptations and harmful influences while recovering.
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A NEW HOME: Emma’s House will be located at 322 N. Latrobe Ave. in Austin. “I’m a recovery coach, and I want to help remove personal and environmental obstacles [to] recovery,” Bates told the board. “I’m well aware of what’s going on in our community and I’m well aware that this issue needs to be addressed. Most women [who] are addicted to drugs and are substance [abusers] don’t have a place to go.”
Bates said the recovery house, a threestory building at 322 N. Latrobe Ave. in Austin, will accommodate up to 17 women. She added that at the facility will implement safety protocols, including providing masks and hand sanitizer. Transitional living facilities like Emma’s House aren’t addiction treatment centers; rather, they are designed to provide support for people who have just completed rehab. Overcoming addiction is a constant process and recovering addicts are especially vulnerable at this point in their recovery, experts say. Emma’s House is located only a few blocks west from another recovery facility for women — Gerald’s House, 176 N. LeClaire Ave. The building that Bates acquired for her recovery house was donated to her by Melvin Bailey. Bates and her husband, Kenneth Bates, used a $165,000 loan from the Chicago Community Loan Fund to rehab the facility. Work was officially completed on the building on Sept. 28, 2019. Bates said that she will be getting referrals
from West Side healthcare providers and addiction treatment facilities. She specifically mentioned Loretto Hospital, the Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center and the Bobby E. Wright Comprehensive Behavioral Health Center, among others. Bates said that clients at her recovery home will learn about “accountability, discipline and responsibility, and more importantly, honesty and integrity.” Each client will get a recovery plan that Emma’s House staff will make sure they follow. “We make sure they’re ready to come back to society,” Bates said. “We make sure that they’re going to their self-help groups [and talking to their sponsors]. We want to make sure they’re sincere in what they’re doing.” Bates told the board that Emma’s House will have two to four staff members, with at least two of them on-site at any given time. The facility will also recruit volunteers. Each client may stay anywhere between six months to a year, she said CONTACT: igorst3@hotmail.com
County commissioner could prompt police defunding
Brandon Johnson’s Justice for Black Lives resolution could affect how county spends public safety funds
An excerpt of from the resolution, which you can find in full at cook-county.legistar.com:
By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
First District Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson, who represents much of the West Side, including Austin where he lives, recently sponsored the Justice for Black Lives resolution. The resolution states the county “shall redirect money from the failed and racist systems of policing, criminalization, and incarceration that have not kept our communities safe, and will instead invest that money in public services not administered by law enforcement that promote community health and safety equitably across the county, but especially in Black and Brown communities most impacted by violence and incarceration.” Those areas and public services include housing, health care, mental health, restorative justice, job creation, public transit, eviction/foreclosure and minority contracting. “This resolution is the first step in a series of measures designed to bring justice, equity and equal protection under the law in the second largest county in the nation,” Johnson said in a joint statement he released with five other cosponsors of the resolution. Although the resolution is largely ceremonial and nonbinding, it could nonetheless have an impact on the county’s budget process, Johnson said. According to the resolution, “across the country, spending grows on traditional law enforcement and incarceration with no correlation to metrics of success such as clearance rates or sense of safety. “For example, despite a 50 percent decrease in the number of people incarcerated in the Cook County Jail between
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PUSHING FOR REFORM: Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson, shown at a demonstration in Maywood earlier this year, has sponsored the Justice for Black Lives resolution. 2013 and 2020, the Cook County Department of Corrections budget grew 26 percent over the same time period.” Around $780 million of the county’s $6.2 billion FY 2020 budget was allocated for the offices of the sheriff ($619 million) and state’s attorney ($161.5 million), according to county data available online. That does not include other areas related to the courts and public safety, such as the money that goes to the circuit court clerk, which is responsible for keeping court records. A spokesperson for Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart’s office told Injustice Watch, a nonprofit journalism outlet based in Chicago, that the sheriff “has invested in “programs and staff that address mental health, substance abuse disorders, poverty, opioid intervention, prostitution, homelessness, and violence as public health issues rather than just matters for law enforcement to address.” The resolution, which passed the Cook County Board of Commissioners’ Criminal Justice Committee in June, could come up for a vote at the board’s next regular meeting on July 30. CONTACT: michael@austinweeklynews.com
“WHEREAS, throughout the history of the United States, policing, criminalization, and incarceration have been used as tools of violence and retribution against marginalized groups seeking safety, especially Black people; and “WHEREAS, policing was in part developed as a tool to preserve the institution of slavery in the 1700’s, focusing on chasing down runaway slaves and shutting down slave revolts, grew into a weapon to disrupt labor uprisings in the 1800s,and matured in the 1900s to be used as the single most effective tool in repressing the civil rights movement; and “WHEREAS, policing has a troubled history in Cook County, most conspicuously visible in the decades-long collaboration by the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and members of the judiciary in prosecutions enabled by disgraced Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge and his associates’ terrorization, torture, and wrongful conviction of more than 150 Black people over dozens of years, thereby permanently damaging the lives of thousands of accused people, their family members, and Black communities at large …” “WHEREAS, all actors in the Cook County justice system, from the State’s Attorney’s Office to the Chief Judge, Clerk of the Circuit Court, and Public Defender have no choice but to collaborate with rank and file law enforcement officers that have successfully resisted calls and efforts to acknowledge the inherent racial bias in policing and reduce the violence experienced by Black people, ending all past efforts at reform unsuccessfully […]”-
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West Side students push for renaming Douglas Park
Park should honor Frederick Douglass, not white supremacist, students say By PASCAL SABINO Block Club Chicago
A campaign to rename Douglas Park was relaunched by the neighborhood’s youth this past weekend. Many people think the sprawling park that anchors the neighborhood was named after esteemed abolitionist, orator and former enslaved person Frederick Douglass. But in 2017, a group of Lawndale students attending Village Leadership Academy learned the park they loved to play in actually memorialized Stephen A. Douglas, a Civil War-era Illinois senator and one of the country’s most notorious slavery advocates. Douglas famously debated Abraham Lincoln in 1858 in support of allowing expanded slavery across U.S. territories. Douglas is not known to have personally owned slaves, but by supporting a state’s right to decide to uphold slavery, he is considered to have de facto endorsed it. “He wasn’t an opponent of slavery. He wasn’t an abolitionist. He also thought less of [African-Americans] than any other race,” Ald. Michael Scott Jr. (24th) said of Douglas in 2017. Students decided it was wrong for Douglas Park to glorify a white supremacist, especially as the surrounding neighborhood is nearly all Black. They got the support of local aldermen, commissioners and residents and filed a formal request for the Park District to add an extra “S” to rename it Douglass Park in honor of Frederick Douglass. The campaign gained traction in the community, but the Park District’s board of commissioners never evaluated the proposed name change. But after years of inaction from the city, the students at Village Leadership Academy are doubling down by relaunching the campaign to rename the park.
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NAME CHANGE, PLEASE: Frederick Douglass, left, and Anna Murray Douglass, right. Below, a group of Village Leadership Academy students who have been participating in the campaign to rename Douglas Park. The students, teachers Bianca Jones and Jennifer Pagan and Principal Dayo Harris will host a teach-in at the park Saturday to kick off the campaign and share with the community their expanded demands for the city to rename all streets, monuments and parks that enshrine white supremacists. “Students recognized that there was a park in their neighborhood named after a white supremacist and clearly someone who did not recognize the full humanity of their ancestors,” Harris said. Students launched a GoFundMe to raise money for Saturday’s teach-in and ongoing political education campaign. The funds will also be used to compensate those fighting for the name change, who are mostly Black women. Students will receive a stipend and educators leading learning circles at Saturday’s launch will be compensated. Harris said it is an important acknowledgement that feminized labor of education and community-building is too often taken for granted. “If there is a way for us to compensate work, specifically social justice work, without framing it in a purely capitalistic framework, then we want to make sure we’re doing that,” Harris said. The renewed campaign to strip Stephen Douglas’ name from the park comes amid a
nationwide push to end the glorification of white supremacists in textbooks, public art and statues. Since the police killing of George Floyd and the protests that followed, protesters and policymakers have demanded governments remove flags and statues celebrating the Confederacy. The reimagined campaign will call on the city to name the park in honor of Frederick Douglass as well as his wife, Anna MurrayDouglass. Murray-Douglass also was an abolitionist who established a station on the Underground Railroad in her home in Rochester, New York. As a woman born free, she also facilitated Douglass’ escape from slavery by giving him money, supplies and a disguise. The team behind the campaign said failing to acknowledge Murray-Douglass’ contributions would continue the history of erasing the accomplishments of Black women who have carried on their backs the social movements for civil rights.
“A lot of the labor that goes unrecognized. It’s invisible,” Harris said. “Often we know that the work and the voices of Black women have historically been omitted.” The new campaign will also take on the silence around violence against women. Students initially approached local leaders with the idea to name the park after Rekia Boyd, an unarmed Black woman who an offduty police offer killed in 2012. The officer was acquitted in Boyd’s death. The idea evolved into renaming the park for Douglass since it it seemed like an easier ask for the Park District. But the students are now demanding the creation of a playground within Douglass Park memorializing Boyd and her death at the hands of anti-Black police violence. The launch event will kick off a political education campaign with learning circles where community members can learn about the students’ demands. The learning circles will also educate community members about the history of the students’ fight to rename the park, the Park District’s bureaucratic name-changing process and the historical figures that get memorialized by the city. “I think that we definitely should talk about the history of Frederick Douglass,” said Zari Young, 14, an alumna of Village Leadership Academy. “I think we should talk about the name of Douglas Park so people can express their opinions of why they think Stephen Douglas was named instead of someone else.” Young people will help teach at the teachins, and the intergenerational approach to learning will make the entire campaign stronger, Zari said. The launch will also be a cookout where residents can get free food, personal protective equipment, masks, feminine hygiene products and other resources. “We want it to be celebratory, but we also want it to be about political education,” Harris said. “We hope to also inspire other youth and want people to leave feeling empowered.” Pascal Sabino is a Report for America corps member covering Austin, North Lawndale and Garfield Park for Block Club Chicago.
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Nonprofit to build $25M community center in Austin
By the Hand Club for Kids teams up with North Austin church to build 140,000 square-foot community center By IGOR STUDENKOV Contributing Reporter
By the Hand Club for Kids has teamed up with North Austin’s Peace and Grace Fellowship Church, 1856 N. Leclaire Ave., to build a two-story, 140,000-square-foot community center on vacant land west of the church. The community center will have two indoor athletic fields with an artificial turf, three indoor basketball courts, six meeting spaces, and multipurpose rooms of various sizes and classrooms for after school activities. In addition, the campus will include an outdoor recreational area with two basketball courts, four volleyball
courts, two tennis courts, a playground and a soccer field. The church will remain untouched and a new parking lot will be built to accommodate both the church and the new community center. The community center is being billed as a vital asset that the surrounding community has long been asking for. But before anything can be built, By the Hand needs to buy the city-owned land that the community center and the athletic courts would be built on, and the project has to obtain several zoning approvals. The zoning changes cleared the Chicago Plan Commission on June 18, but they still need to be approved by the Chicago City Council. The commission also gave tentative approval to the land sell, but the sell won’t actually be finalized until the end of the month. Assuming there are no delays, By the Hand expects to begin construction in September 2020, with the goal of having it up and running by September 2021. Originally based in Cabrini-Green, By the Hand has expanded to several
neighborhoods. In Austin, the organization operates an after school activity center at 415 N. Laramie Ave., and the Moving Everest charter school right across the street, at 416 N. Laramie Ave. Heidi Sperry, the coordinator of special projects at the Chicago Department of Planning and Development, told the plan commission that, given that 27 percent of Austin residents are age 19 and under, there was clearly demand for a community center. When the city held the meeting on the Invest South/West initiative in Austin early this year, a community center was one of the top recommendations. Donnita Travis, By the Hand’s executive director, pointed to her organization’s past success in Austin in terms of helping students learn and succeed. “We can’t wait to get there,” she said. “We’re excited because we’ll be able to serve 600 more kids.” Travis also said that Grace and Peace Church will be providing social services at the community center. The project is expected to create 100 construction jobs and 50 permanent jobs.
The project’s organizers want to hire at least 50 percent of its workforce from Chicago, with the goal of hiring at least 10 percent of the work force specifically from the 37th Ward. Travis said that the construction project will cost around $25 million — $6 million of which will come from the New Market Tax Credits, a federal program that provides incentives for developers to build in lowincome communities. By the Hand has raised $4 million are is trying to secure about $4 million in grants, Travis said. The organization will conduct fundraising for the remainder of the cost. “In Central Austin, By the Hand Club actually raised $75 million for operating and capital, and that’s mostly private funding,” Travis said. “Emma Mitts is here [on the call], so she can attest to our ability to get things done.” The city’s zoning committee is scheduled to consider the zoning changes on July 21 before the City Council votes on final approval on July 22. CONTACT: igors3@hotmail.com
Loretto, union workers reach tentative agreement
Agreement averts strike planned for July 20
contract is about $1.30,” Igoe said. Wellington Thomas, an emergency room technician who has been at Loretto for nearly 14 years, said at a press conference earlier this month he has to work extra shifts as an EMT to make ends meet. Igoe said Thomas will receive a $1.20 raise in the first year. In its Friday statement, SEIU said workers will still “gather outside Loretto Hospital on Monday morning as part of the Strike for Black Lives National Day of Action.”
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SEIU Illinois announced on July 17 that it has reached a tentative agreement on a new contract with The Loretto Hospital. Nearly 200 workers who serve as patient care techs, emergency room techs, and mental health, dietary and housekeeping staff had previously threatened to strike as early as July 20. The new contract will be for three and a half years and be retroactive to December 2019, when the old contract expired. The contract must still be ratified; union members, who make up about one-third of the Austin hospital’s workforce, will vote on July 22 on the proposed agreement. SEIU said in a statement the new contract “provides for significant, life-changing wins that will help safeguard workers, their families, their patients and communities.” Changes include an enforced short staffing premium; a wage of at least $15 an hour for all workers; and regular pay increases based on seniority. Anne Igoe, vice president for hospitals and health systems at SEIU Illinois, said understaffing has been a particular problem in the emergency room. “Loretto is a very busy ER. Oftentimes,
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STRIKE AVERTED: Members of SEIU Illinois stand outside Loretto Hospital earlier this month to push for an increase in pay and other changes. they’ll get new patients in, and halfway through the shift have to send more patients up to the floor, and that’s when they run into these scenarios of not having sufficient staff.” Enforcement of the short staffing premium will involve the hospital posting staffing grids to make workers are aware of when they are understaffed based on employee to patient ratios. When there are too many patients per employee, employees will receive a two to three hour premium on their pay, Igoe said.
The short staffing premiums are meant to hold managers accountable and encourage higher rates of staffing, she said. “Employees quit because they’re overworked, and employees quit because they’re underpaid.” To address underpaid staff, all entry level employees will start at $15 an hour, with some higher-level positions, such as behavioral health staff, starting between $18 and $22 per hour. Staff will also receive regular raises based on seniority. “The average raise in the first year of the
They will be showing “their solidarity for workers across the city and country calling for the resources, wages and workplace protections needed to protect Black lives on the job and in our communities.” Igoe said worker’s participation in the Black Lives National Day of Action was being done jointly with Loretto and would not impact hospital operations in any way. Loretto “knows that what’s needed, and the union knows what’s needed, is investment in Loretto and investment in Austin,” she said. Igoe said Loretto, as well as other safety net hospitals in Chicago, have missed out on federal funding during the COVID-19 pandemic. SEIU plans to lobby the state to advocate for standalone, safety net hospitals to receive their fair share of the funding, she said. Hospital officials declined to comment Friday. CONTACT: austintalks.org@gmail.com
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JOHN LEWIS
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“life was exceptional. But he never believed that what he did was more than any citizen of this country might do.” Congressman Danny K. Davis (7th) served on the Ways and Means Committee with Lewis. During a phone interview on July 19, Davis remembered his colleague’s “unpretentious” and easy-going demeanor. “John was easy to get along with and easy to deal with,” Davis said. “He never got too carried away with himself and who he was.
risking his life on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., during a demonstration on March 7, 1965. Lewis and Hosea Williams, another civil rights activist, led more than 600 people across the bridge before Alabama State Troopers, in an attempt to disperse the crowd, began tear gassing and beating the marchers. The grainy, monochromatic image of Lewis getting hit over the head by a trooper is one of the most iconic images of the modern civil rights movement and helped pave the way for the passage of the Voting Rights Act later that year. Lewis sustained a fractured skull from that day and scarring on his GOOD TROUBLE: John head that stayed with him until Lewis, pictured above his death. in his younger days and After Lewis died on Friday, leaders from around the (right) while at the Atlanta world — and across Proviso Women’s March in January Township — offered tributes to 2017. Bottom, Lewis after the congressman, who was first elected to the U.S. House in 1987. he was arrested by police In a statement, former President in Nashville while trying Barack Obama lauded Lewis for to desegregate the city’s his “gentleness and humility.” businesses. Obama said the congressman’s Photos: Wikipedia
An excerpt of John Lewis’ speech at the March on Washington: “To those who have said, “Be patient and wait,” we have long said that we cannot be patient. We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now! We are tired. We are tired of being beaten by policemen. We are tired of seeing our people locked up in jail over and over again. And then you holler, “Be patient.” How long can we be patient? We want our freedom and we want it now. We do not want to go to jail. But we will go to jail if this is the price we must pay for love, brotherhood, and true peace. “I appeal to all of you to get into this great revolution that is sweeping this nation. Get in and stay in the streets of every city, every village and hamlet of this nation until true freedom comes, until the revolution of 1776 is complete. We must get in this revolution and complete the revolution. For in the Delta in Mississippi, in southwest Georgia, in the Black Belt of Alabama, in Harlem, in Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and all over this nation, the black masses are on the march for jobs and freedom. “They’re talking about slow down and stop. We will not stop. All of the forces of Eastland, Barnett, Wallace, and Thurmond will not stop this revolution. If we do not get meaningful legislation out of this Congress, the time will come when we will not confine our marching to Washington. We will march through the South; through the streets of Jackson, through the streets of Danville, through the streets of Cambridge, through the streets of Birmingham. But we will march with the spirit of love and with the spirit of dignity that we have shown here today. By the force of our demands, our determination, and our numbers, we shall splinter the segregated South into a thousand pieces and put them together in the image of God and democracy. We must say: “Wake up America! Wake up!” For we cannot stop, and we will not and cannot be patient.”
He was a very common, decent guy. Just the essence of decency. The essence of honesty. The essence of integrity. The essence of virtue.” “We lost a giant in the fight for civil rights,” explained Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford (4th) in a statement. “Congressman John Lewis unapologetically and fiercely fought for the rights of Black people and every marginalized population in our country. He carried on the dream that
Dr. Martin Luther King first manifested in 1963 to his dying day, and we have to continue to carry that vision until it is reality.” “I once stood in a long line to hear Congressman John Lewis speak in Springfield, Illinois,” wrote state Rep. Emanuel “Chris” Welch in a Facebook post. “I got lucky enough to sit in the front row, and I was glued to his every word. He was so inspiring to elected officials like me because listening to him you knew he loved everyone and everything.” Lewis may have been easy going, but he was also a serious, fearless political brawler who didn’t shy from a fight. The congressman often reminded audiences during his multitude of speeches and appearances that he was arrested more than 40 times as an activist and five more times after becoming a congressman. “I remember when we did that sit-in on the floor of the House,” recalled Davis, referencing the 2016 demonstration that Lewis helped lead in order to push for gun control. “We couldn’t get Republicans to do anything on gun control. They just wouldn’t. So somebody mentioned something about maybe sitting on the floor, which was against the House rules. “And John said, ‘Sometimes, you have to get in trouble and break the rules,’” Davis said. “But it’s ‘good trouble.’ That was one of his favorite expressions. ‘Get in the way, get in good trouble, make trouble. Make things uncomfortable for the opposition.’ And that was John.” CONTACT: michael@austinweeklynews.com
Austin Weekly News, July 22, 2020
IN HOT WATER: House Speaker Michael Madigan is shown in this file photo from Oct. 28, 2019, at the Capitol in Springfield. Capitol News Illinois file photo
ComEd’s bribery admission implicates Madigan Court document shows utility agrees to pay $200 million, admits attempts to in lence House Speaker
name those who are not charged. The implications were clear, however, as federal officials said ComEd “admitted it arranged jobs, vendor subcontracts, and monetary payments associated with those jobs and subcontracts, for various associates of a high-level elected official” in order to advance legislation that would bring the company monetary benefits that “exceeded $150 million.” By JERRY NOWICKI This occurred “even in instances where Capitol News Illinois these political allies and workers did little SPRINGFIELD – Hours after fi ling a court to no work that they were reportedly hired document implicating – but not charging – to perform,” John Lausch Jr., U.S. attorney Illinois’ House Speaker Michael Madigan in for the Northern District of Illinois, said at a a yearslong bribery scheme, federal offi cials Chicago news conference. “In many ways, this agreement – including took to the courtyard of the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago on Friday to deliver and specifically ComEd’s statement of facts a message to those engaging in public – it speaks for itself,” Lausch said. “But it also speaks volumes about the nature of a corruption: “We will fi nd you too.” The charges in the document fi led Friday very stubborn public corruption problem are offi cially against Commonwealth Edison, we have here in Illinois. The admitted facts Illinois’ largest electric utility company, detail a nearly decade-long corruption which h as agreed to pay $200 million and scheme involving top management at a large to continue cooperating with an ongoing public utility, leaders in state government, federal corruption probe in order to defer consultants, and several others inside and prosecution for a single count of bribery. outside of government.” Later Friday, a statement issued via a Per that agreement – which is still pending approval from a judge – prosecution against communications firm on behalf of Madigan the utility giant would be delayed for three said he had “accepted subpoenas” at his years and potentially dismissed in exchange offices asking for documents related to job recommendations “among other things.” for the company’s cooperation. “He will cooperate and respond to those The bombshell in the report, however, is that ComEd admitted to – from 2011 until requests for documents, which he believes will clearly demonstrate that he has done 2019 – seeking to “infl uence and reward Public Offi cial A” for that person’s favorable nothing criminal or improper,” according to action on legislation. While Public Offi cial A the statement distributed by Maura Possley is not directly named in the document, that of the BoycePossley firm. “The speaker has never helped someone person is later identifi ed as “the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives and find a job with the expectation that the the longest serving member of the House of person would not be asked to perform work by their employer, nor did he ever Representatives.” The current House Speaker is Michael expect to provide anything to a prospective Madigan, a Chicago Democrat who has held employer if it should choose to hire a person that position since 1983, except for a brief he recommended. He has never made a stint from 1995 to 1997. The documents did legislative decision with improper motives not contain his name or any charges against and has engaged in no wrongdoing here. the person identifi ed as “Public Offi cial A.” Any claim to the contrary is unfounded,” At their news conference Friday afternoon, Possley said in the emailed statement. federal authorities said the FBI does not CONTACT: michael@austinweeklynews.com
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SCHOOL COUNCILS Democratic? from page 1 councils, the groups must hold at least two meetings a year and follow Illinois’ Open Meetings Act, which requires them to post an agenda publicly 48 hours in advance of a meeting. Even prior to the latest votes, an analysis of the 70 schools with police officers show that 39, or more than half, have not posted an agenda or minutes from any meeting online this calendar year. Also, only 32 of the councils provided meeting dates or notices this calendar year online, all in violation of rules set forth by the school district. David Greising, president of the Better Government Association, said the meetings act is one of two key tools — along with access to records — of public accountability. Sometimes a body doesn’t adhere to those laws, said Greising, whose organization has filed lawsuits to encourage government transparency. But when there are multiple examples of a lack of transparency it’s no longer incidental. “That is a systemic problem,” he said. Asked Tuesday at a press conference about reports that some councils weren’t posting meeting details and leaving communities without a mechanism for participation, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said it was the individual groups’ responsibility to inform their communities about the meetings, not the school district’s. “Typically, when and how and what the circumstances are that those local schools councils are meeting is controlled by them, not by the central office at CPS. But we’ll certainly look into it if it’s an issue,” said Lightfoot who has opposed the wholesale removal of police officers from schools and thinks the decision should be the purview of the councils. Asked directly about violations of its rules, Chicago Public Schools did not immediately provide comment, nor did it explain the reasoning for not centrally tracking meeting times and other information. Councils were granted the authority to retain officers as part of a package of federally mandated reforms. Last summer, all councils voted to keep police, though some participants complained the votes were rushed or didn’t follow proper voting procedure at the time. Originally designed to offer communities a voice in school decision making, the councils have the power to hire and fire the principal, approve a school’s annual budget and sign off on school improvement plans. At some schools, councils play an active role, meeting monthly, rallying families around issues and opportunities at campuses, and serving as a critical bridge between communities and schools. But critics say many councils have been disempowered over the years by a lack of community involvement, poor training, and, at times, strained relationships with school
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POLICED: A school resource officer walks the halls of Benito Juarez Community Academy in January of 2019. The school’s LSC voted to remove resource officers from the Pilsen school last week. leadership. Full councils are supposed to comprise the principal, six parents, two community members, two teachers, and one non-teacher staff member. (High school councils add a student representative.) In the last round of elections, held in 2018, more than half of the Local School Councils across the city lacked enough candidates to fill each organization’s 12 seats. WBEZ reported this week that more than a fifth of the schools with police officers assigned to them don’t have school councils at all or fall short of having enough members to form a quorum, according to information obtained earlier in the year by the parent advocacy group Raise Your Hand Illinois. Natasha Erskine, parent organizer with Raise Your Hand, said it wasn’t fair to place such a high-stakes decision on the groups. “Knowing there are school councils without a quorum, knowing there are schools with less empowered LSCs, it’s a bit disingenuous,” Erskine said. To strengthen the bodies, she suggested better training, and clearer rules to address occasionally strained relationships between councils and school leaders perhaps reluctant to share their authority. The city’s teachers union also has been critical. Stacy Davis Gates, the union’s vice president, said that local school councils at low-performing schools can be stripped of their decision-making authority, with the result that any vote the groups make is purely advisory. Gates said this ties the hands of representatives at turnaround schools, which are disproportionately located in Black and Latino neighborhoods. “Local school councils do not have the type of democracy that [Lightfoot] says that
they do. And anyone who is a parent, anyone who has attended LSC meetings… knows that,” Gates said.
More Transparency In Voting At Marshall Metropolitan High School in East Garfield Park, the council voted on July 14 to keep officers. Some parents wanted to closely watch the vote, since school officers were caught on camera last year dragging a student, whom they also tased, down the stairs in a high-profile incident. The vote raised questions as to whether there were enough council members present to hold a legal vote or if proper notice of the meeting was given in accordance with Open Meetings Act rules. Journalist Kelly Garcia submitted numerous requests asking Marshall Metropolitan High School’s administration and their Local School Council for meeting information. Meeting information on Marshall’s website was out of date, and Garcia got no response to her calls, emails, and Facebook messages asking when the vote would take place. A parent eventually informed Garcia Tuesday morning that Principal Jammie T. Poole sent out the meeting details and video conference line at 8:35 a.m., less than 30 minutes before the meeting was set to take place. When Garcia logged into the virtual meeting 20 minutes late, only five members of the Local School Council were present, not enough for a quorum according to CPS rules. The council voted anyway. After Garcia
How LSC Votes Are Supposed To Work This week Chicago Public Schools released a guide for local school councils to help clarify what they can and cannot do. It says: • Councils set their own schedule for meetings and must meet at least twice each year, according to the state law establishing their powers and duties. • Those meetings are open and must include public participation. • Special meetings and unscheduled meetings held to address an issue that needs immediate attention can only be called by the chair or by at least four members of the council. • The agenda for all council meetings must be posted at least 48 hours in advance. • All items receiving a vote must be listed on the agenda. • The councils must have at least seven members present to conduct business, also known as a quorum. If an LSC does not have a quorum, the principal and Network Chief make the final recommendation. CPS says that recommendation should be based on feedback from the school’s community. • Prior to the police votes, CPS recommends that councils hold a town hall to seek community input.
Austin Weekly News, July 22, 2020 joined, LSC members began expressing frustration that there was a member of the public on the call. “Why are they here?” an LSC member asked, before someone motioned to adjourn the meeting. Garcia said members then discussed continuing the meeting at a later time in private. The principal did not respond to multiple requests for comment. The council’s move to dismiss the public meeting because a reporter was on the line is concerning, said Maryam Judar, executive director of the Citizen Advocacy Center, a group dedicated to making the government more accountable. “It’s a public meeting and reporters are members of the public and should have access,” she said. Later, someone who answered the phone at the school and identified themselves as a local school council member said the vote was 9-0. That person refused to provide their name. Chicago Public Schools officials did not provide a response to questions about the vote. At Corliss High School in Pullman, representatives voted 8-1 to retain officers before asking parents and community members to comment, contrary to the rules asking schools to allow public comment first. The school did not say on its meeting agenda it planned to vote on the issue. Principal Ali Muhammad told the group that the school has a
good working relationship with its school resource officers. “Those of you who know me know I’m not going to let anyone mistreat students,” Muhammad said. Member Sheila Jones-Coleman said the officers went “beyond” to build relationships with students, even hosting an ice cream social. Meanwhile, Cleopatra Watson, a council member and parent at the school, said she doesn’t think schools are a place for police.
Some Votes Taken Before Public Comment, Others Delayed
At Prosser Career Academy in Belmont Cragin, the council on Wednesday changed its agenda at the last-minute, opting to make space for public comment before the planned vote on school police, rather than after. The group, which had a quorum but no student member, ultimately tabled its vote, saying it wanted to survey students and consider results from a recent district survey. At least 10 schools have decided to delay their votes. One of those is Roberto Clemente High School in West Town, where the local school council met virtually last week to discuss the issue. In a rare advisory vote, the group voted 8-3 in favor of eliminating school resource officers. Two members were absent. The vote was not binding, council secretary Daniel Marre said. Principal Fernando Mojica said the group needed more input before formalizing the decision. “The purpose is not to just keep having votes. The LSC has already voted. We want to be able to engage stakeholders.” The school is now planning two more community forums to review the issue, and it also plans to survey students. But some in the virtual public meeting questioned why the council was holding more meetings rather than sticking with the original vote. A flurry of messages popped up in the virtual meeting chat box signaling that people were puzzled. “As a community member,” one person wrote, “[I] find this confusing.” Freelance reporter Kelly Garcia Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago and Chalkbeat Chicago intern Sneha HANDS UP, DON’T SHOOT: Protesters gather near police officers outside the Chicago Police Dey contributed to this story. Academy in the West Loop during a protest demanding that Chicago Public Schools divest CONTACT: pascal@blockclubchi.org
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Clark’s local school resource council voted 11-0 to keep officers By PASCAL SABINO Block Club Chicago
The local school council at Michele Clark Academic Prep Magnet High School voted unanimously on July 16 to keep school resource officers on campus. The 11-0 vote came after a short discussion where no students spoke. “We do need the [officers] for the safety of students and the staff,” said Bernard Clay, a community representative on the council. Pulling police out of schools has become a focal point of the youth-led movement that more broadly is protesting police violence and demanding funding devoted to police be directed toward community resources. The Chicago Public School Board narrowly voted in June not to sever the district’s $33 million contract with the Chicago Police Department. Mayor Lori Lightfoot and schools chief Janice Jackson also decided not to take district-wide action to cancel the contracts. Instead, they gave the final decision to local school councils, which are advisory bodies comprising parents, teachers, community members and school administrators. Of the local school councils that have voted, the majority have opted to keep officers on campus. Other school councils have delayed their votes to get more feedback from community members. Principal Charles Anderson said officers assigned to Michele Clark are there to offer support for the school’s programs, not arrest students. “We’ve been able to get a lot of mentoring going on. And I can’t speak for other schools for how they use them,” Anderson said. “I feel like they have been in partnership with us.” Though no students spoke at the meeting, Anderson said some of the students his administration spoke to were in support of keeping the police officers on campus. “This is not just something we decided as adults. This is something we decided as a school,” Anderson said. Pascal Sabino is a Report for America corps member covering Austin, North Lawndale and Garfield Park for Block Club Chicago. CONTACT: pascal@blockclubchi.org
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