Participate in the People’s Promise Platform for the CPS Chicago Elected Board of Education! Send your comment!
I have a meeting with CPS leadership scheduled for June and I am in conversations with much of the Illinois House of Representatives who will be returning from their Spring Break.
Your voice is needed. I want to put forth a People’s Platform. My voice is only 1 voice. Our voices are many.
The People’s Promise Platform must represent the many.
Please add your constructive feedback to our People’s Promise Platform.
You can use the form on this page to send in your comments ahead of time. I have begun networking with my neighbors to build a platform powered by people, not platitudes. I have had small conversations with block club leaders and social justice organizers and am planning the next gathering in June. I would love for you to be there.
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
I spent zero dollars on this and I am making zero dollars from this. The position I am seeking is also a volunteer position. There is not even an office for which to file yet. This is paid by passion. Make no checks out. There will be time for that in the future. For now: Get Ready and #ShareThePromise.