Seth Perlman, AP file
Chicago voters would get to decide who sits on the city’s school board in the next two municipal elections under a bill that passed the Illinois House on Thursday and now moves to the state Senate.
All Chicago-based legislators voted in favor of advancing the bill, which would allow for the election of members of the Chicago Board of Education “for the 2023 and 2027 consolidated primary elections only” and requires the General Assembly to “review and revise the election of members of the Chicago Board of Education” at a later date.
A graduate of Chicago Public Schools, state Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Chicago, said the bill “will allow — for the first time in a long time — for Chicago to have” the same democracy as other municipalities that elect their local school boards.