Last June hundreds of activists knocked on doors and gathered enough signatures to put an advisory referendum on the November 6th ballot for an elected school board. Here we are on a hot day in Logan Square.
Only the Illinois legislature can give the people of Chicago our right to elect our own school board.
We get to elect the people who oversee our water supply, so electing our own school board members would seem to be a no brainer.
It’s not so crazy an idea. Every other school board in Illinois is elected. Every one but ours.
But the legislature needs a little push. So on November 6th we will give them a little push.
The Mayor wants to keep hold on to his ability to pick his own million dollar friends to run things down at 125 S. Clark Street. And we have seen what a great job they have been doing so far.
Last summer, energized by what was going on between the Chicago Teachers Union and the board of education, hundreds of activists took to the streets all over Chicago and gathered enough signatures to put an advisory referendum on the ballot in 200 precincts across the city.
On November 6th those of us who live in one of those 600 precincts get to vote for more democracy in our city.
You can find out if you live in one of those precincts by going here.
Then you can download a flyer and find out what else you can do by going here.
Let’s do this.
Fred Klonsky 
Hey, Raise Your Hand is reporting 327 precincts. have the question on the ballot http://ilraiseyourhand.org/. Also, Wendy Katten made sure it got on the ballot in Mike Madigan’s own precinct and in our beloved mayor’s precinct.