Dear Representatives,

I am writing to you to follow up on our previous conversations and correspondence:

With regards to needed legislation to be the next steps in implementing Chicago’s upcoming Elected School Board, I have been joined by others in saying that ensuring an appropriate staff for the all volunteer board members is an appropriate first step.

As requested by many Representatives, I reached out several times to CPS — but never received a response.

We all recognize this is much more complex than appears.

But we all agree we need to start and we can start with a policy we all already agree upon:

Let’s give each volunteer board member a staffer.

You can see the legislative road to victory is as narrow as I can see it, too.

We need to move fast.

If I can bring enough votes—- if I can work with you and your colleagues, on both sides, to bring it out of committee and to the floor— If I can do this for Veto— would you support it?

We can take it from there.

The language of the bill:.

Yours, and

Looking Forward,

Daniel