Some questioned whether the map will proportationately represent Black and Latino families.
community members spoke in strong opposition for more than an hour, with some citing issues with the map and others critiquing more structural parts of the impending changes.
“The preliminary map that you released yesterday under-represents the Latino population compared to their proportion of the CPS population and over-represents the white population,” Jessica Cañas, representing Kids First Chicago, a children’s and parents’ advocacy group, told the panel of lawmakers. “There have been lots of people coming to all of these hearings talking about the needs to represent CPS families,” said Taschaunda Hall, also with Kids First Chicago. “And your maps have completely disregarded their voices.”
One of the challenges of drawing a map with districts that are ethnically and racially propoortionate is that the demographics of CPS students are not representative of the city as a whole. The white population is 33% of the city, with Black and Latino residents each making up about 30% of the population. A relatively small percent of white students attend CPS.
“That’s a lot of different communities,” Searle said in an impassioned statement that was met with applause. “While school board seats are considered volunteers, we all know if we want this done well, it’s a full-time job,” said Jianan Shi, executive director of the organization Raise Your Hand for Illinois Public Education. He noted that the CPS budget isand that school board members in Miami-Dade County in Florida and in Los Angeles are paid around $47,000 and $125,000 respectively.
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