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Jose Alvarez, Officer
Office of Local School Council Relations
Chicago Public Schools
125 South Clark Street, 5th Floor
Chicago, IL 60603
Telephone: 773.553.1400
Fax: 773.553.1402
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Local School Council Information Click
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here for LSC Training Schedule
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!
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Agenda
for the Parental Involvement Advisory Board (December 11, 2007)
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A drawing will be held in the Board of Education Chambers located at 125 South Clark
Street, 5th Floor, on Thursday, September 13, 2007, at 10:00 a.m.
NCLB schools will be selected randomly to nominate parents of children that are
NCLB Title I program participants. These parents will serve on the NCLB Title 1, Part A,
Parent Involvement Advisory Board.
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2007 Leadership Guide available
- English
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2007 Leadership Guide available - Spanish
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Message to LSC Members About the Organizational Meeting
According to the Illinois School Code, your Schools’ Annual LSC Organizational Meeting
must be held between July 1st and July 14th each year. If your school has not yet held the organizational
meeting, please plan to do so immediately. Please keep in mind that the meeting cannot take place
prior to July 1, nor can it be ratified. If you held the meeting prior to July 1st , it must be
held again.
For your convenience, I have attached a sample agenda and
the organizational meeting form for your LSC to fill
out and return to my office. Please complete the attached form and return it to: Ms. Diantha James,
Office of LSC Relations 5th Floor; GSR 125, or fax it to her at (773) 553-1402. If you have
any questions please contact LSC Relations at (773) 553-1400.
- The Office of School & Community Relations has a revised roster of school Clusters/Areas,
and the Facilitators who will serve them. To see which Facilitator will be serving which Cluster/Area
of schools, click here.
Mission Statement:
To provide for the education of children by assisting and nurturing the family and community support
structures needed for the enhancement and advancement of children through a multi-faceted approach
which includes: to oversee and facilitate the operation of site-based management in each school;
to expand all facets of communications with parents and the greater community; to develop strong
relationships with community-based organizations, agencies and city departments; to develop learning
communities; to advance school safety; and to provide systematic and comprehensive parent training,
resources and support on a citywide basis to all parents of CPS students.
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Goals for the 2007-2008 School Year
- Provide assistance and support in every part of the day-to-day operations of all Local School
Councils´ activities.
- Assess critique and report on every facet of the LSC elections.
- Continue to provide training to all Local School Council members.
- Develop and implement greatly expanded communication efforts with all segments of the local
school community.
- Respond to all written and verbal inquiries in a timely manner.
- Expand the scope of professional development of our teachers.
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Accomplishments
- Trained over 66000 Local School Council members
- Conducted 2 days of Local School Council Elections in over 600 schools which included the following:
(1) Trained 2,500 judges, 400 monitors, 600 school coordinators and 6 regional facilitators; (2)
Created a judges manual, an election guide, flyers, brochures and posters; (3) Conducted six “How
To Campaign” workshops; (4) Investigated 100 pre and post election challenges; (5) Produced
PSAs and participated in television programs; (6) Produced election materials in six languages;
(7) Recruited 7,561 candidates; (8) Managed electoral process for schools and candidates that resulted
in 133,000 voters.
- Responded to 2,000 in-office visits.
- Worked in cooperation with over 40 non-profit organizations.
- Worked with over 20 schools in investigating of facilitating child safety issues.
- Attended over 75 C.A.P.S. beat meetings throughout the city.
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