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...years later, LSCs had signed half of CPS's 540 principals to four-year optional contracts. They had also fired more than 100 principals, according to Patrick J. Keleher Jr., president of the Chicago-based Taxpayers for Educational Accountability and Choice (TEACH America...
...fall of 1989, the city mobilized in a Tocquevillean dream as thousands of parents and citizens ran for spots on their LSCs. (Minority school districts had among the highest participation rates in the LSC elections). In late December, the reform's slogan--"Parent Power"--became a reality as LSC's took office...
...DECEMBER 1990, the Illinois Supreme Court declared the SRA unconstitutional because it violates the "one person, one vote," principle of constitutional law. Although the state legislature has tried to salvage the SRA by declaring ex post facto that the LSCs are appointed by the mayor of Chicago, this constitutional challenge has obviously thrown a giant fly into the reform ointment...
However, reform has been dealt a more serious setback by educators. The Chicago Principals' Association has attacked SRA's educational overhaul in court, in the LSCs and in the schools themselves. Fortunately, their legal challenge of the anti-tenure portions of the act was denied, but the association continues to oppose any substantive reform. It is appealing the ruling. And the Chicago Teachers' Union has supported the principals' challenge...
Vouchers may not be the best or only solution to America's abysmal education situation, but in refusing to even consider reform or vouchers, the Chicago Principals' Association is doubly guilty. It neither wants to be held accountable by LSCs nor wants to have to compete on the open market for voucher money...