Hello, and thank you for everything you have already done.
We are on the move.
Please join me in crafting a People’s Platform that will uphold the Promise that by the time the first Kindergartners of the Elected School Board enter high school, the high school that they enter must be able to meet their diverse set of needs.
That is the promise we will share.
Please join. You can also use the link here to submit your comments electronically.
I will be elected to my district, which I will represent, but I will feel the need to serve the whole city.
That is why the event is near where I live. The location is likely in the district I will represent, once Springfield releases their maps.
But all Chicago is invited, because even if I represent near where I live, the platform must be city-inclusive. We need you.
We are meeting in person at Rewired Cafe, 1100 W. Thorndale, at 3PM on Saturday June 17.
You can use the link below to find the comment form.
RSVP: contact@vote.danielkleinman.org
I am looking forward to seeing you!
#ShareThePromise
I call this My Promise 2038. Thank you.
Despite loving to learn, I struggled in elementary school and then nearly dropped out of high school.
I was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder Type 1.
But the high school placed me in a classroom that had extra support and resources.
My life achievements happening now are because I was given the support I needed to make them happen then.
Every. Single. Student. Deserves the same. And every single school deserves the resources to provide that.
Every neighborhood school should have what my school had.
No student should have to leave their neighborhood, or leave an empty school to attend an overcrowded one, just to receive the resources they already deserve.
I do not have all the answers. Parents and teachers do and they need to be heard, not told.
I campaigned against Rahm Emanuel and his school closing policies from the moment he resigned from the White House in 2010.
I have fought to defeat the notion that for one school to rise, another must struggle and fall.
Through my experience on the Local School Councils of Senn High School in Edgewater and Disney Magnet Elementary School in Uptown, paired with my experience as a housing organizer with amazing nonprofits like Action Now and the Edgewater Community Council, and as a constituent organizer with leaders like Alderman Ameya Pawar, with work featured in the Chicago Tribune and TimeOut Chicago, I have learned one thing that makes me most qualified to serve on Chicago’s first Elected Board of Education.
I know that the next solution is a shared one.
We must share in our schools’ financial opportunities.
We must share in our schools’ abilities to hire great teachers.
We must share in our schools’ safety, no matter the neighborhood.
As we tell our kindergarteners, we must share.
When the new school year begins in my first term, it will be 2025. I will start with a promise to the students entering Kindergarten.
Their high school must be able to meet their needs.
That is the promise we must make to the class of 2038.
We must start improving now for our students now. But the class of 2038 must be our mandate.
It is a promise we will share.
I am Looking Forward,
Daniel Steven Kleinman