State lawmakers extend the deadline for Chicago’s elected school board map after lacking agreement on boundaries
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Just before 1 a.m. Friday, in the closing hours of the Illinois Senate’s spring session, lawmakers hastily passed an amendment giving themselves an additional nine months to finalize Chicago Public Schools’ new elected school board map, blowing through a deadline that has been on the calendar for almost two years.
Despite the original July deadline — and the fact that the effective deadline was the end of the spring session this week — Democrat lawmakers waited until May to release their first map draft. That plan prompted objections from community members who felt it had too few Latino-majority districts, given Latino students make up 47% of the Chicago Public Schools’ student body.
“But that said, they’ve had two years to get this map drawn. It’s not like someone passed the school board bill earlier this session, and so it’s disappointing there wasn’t thought through this process earlier than this because it’s not a surprise to anyone that they need maps by July 1,” Creswell added.
But drawing 20 districts that are “substantially equal in population,” as the law demands, and that provide proportionate racial representation while also keeping neighborhoods intact is a difficult process, lawmakers say.
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