Board of Education

Chicago Public Schools
Education

Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024
5:00 p.m. — 7:00 p.m. CDT

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1147 N Western Ave Auditorium Chicago, IL 60622 (Directions)

Jianan Shi President, and Members of the Board of Education Mariela Estrada Mary Fahey Hughes Rudy Lozano, Jr. Michelle Morales Elizabeth Todd-Breland Tanya D. Wood Enclosed is a copy of the Agenda for the Board Meeting to be held on Thursday, September 26, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. The meeting will be held at Roberto Clemente High School located at 1147 N. Western Av., the auditorium. Attendees can park in the parking lot located across the street from the school on Western Avenue and use the main entrance (door #2). The Board President and the Chief Executive Officer have determined that registered speakers who wish to present during Public Participation may have the option to participate in person at the location of the Board meeting or virtually via an electronic platform. The public will have access to the meeting via live stream at cpsboe.org. Public Participation Guidelines are available on www.cpsboe.org. For the September 26, 2024 Board Meeting, advance registration to speak will be available beginning Tuesday, September 24 th at 10:30 a.m. and will close on Wednesday, September 25 th at 10:30 a.m. Anyone interested in speaking can sign up. After the 24-hour registration period, a lottery will randomly select a set number of speakers from those who registered. For example, if 100 people register, the lottery might select 30 of them to speak. This process gives everyone a fair chance to address the Board. Advance registration during this period is available by the following methods: Online: www.cpsboe.org (recommended) Phone: (773) 553-1600 To ensure equity of access to address the Board, an individual may not speak at back-to-back meetings and more than one meeting per month. If you register for back-to-back meetings and more than one meeting per month, you will not be included for that meeting lottery. In the event an individual registers to speak at a consecutive meeting, the individual will not be called to address the Board. Advance registration to observe will also be available beginning Tuesday, September 24 th at 10:30 a.m. and will close on Wednesday, September 25 th at 5:00 p.m. or until all slots are filled. Advance registration during this period is available by the following methods: Online: www.cpsboe.org (recommended) Phone: (773) 553-1600 Although Advance Registration is recommended, you can also register to observe a meeting on the day of a Board Meeting via: Same Day in Person Observer Registration: Roberto Clemente High School, 1147 N. Western Av. Registration Time: Opens at 4:45 p.m. and will remain open for the duration of the Board Meeting Same Day, In-Person Observer Registrations are taken on a first come, first serve basis as seats become available. The Public Participation segment of the meeting will begin following the Committee Updates and proceed for no more than 30 speakers for sixty minutes. Speakers selected through the lottery will receive instructions for Public Participation. Members of the public may submit written comments for Board of Education meetings via the Written Comments Form on the Board’s website at www.cpsboe.org or mailed to 1 N. Dearborn, Suite 950. Written comments received between the day the public agenda is posted through 5 p.m. the day after the Board of Education meeting will be submitted to the Board and posted within five (5) business days on our website at www.cpsboe.org. The complete, final Agenda of Actions from the August 14, 2024 Agenda Review Committee meeting and the August 29, 2024 Board meeting is on our website: http://www.cpsboe.org/meetings/past-meetings.

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Chicago Public Schools

The Chicago Board of Education is charged with governing the Chicago Public Schools (CPS), setting policies, governing operations, and charting the direction of current and future programs.

A list of board members (with headshots) is here. Board members are currently appointed by the mayor. In 2021, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a bill into law that will gradually transition to a 21-member elected school board over the course of 2024-2027.

A list of CPS executive leadership is here.

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