Getting LSC Election Results From CPS
A number of folks have complained about not being able to get LSC election results, for individual schools much less citywide. However, O'Kema Lewis sent an email to CPS and got an interesting response:
From O'Kema: "Mr. Alvarez and Dr. Rice, Per your office staff, if anyone called the LSC Relations Office / Election Central for two days, wanting to know the outcome of a LSC election, they were told that: "Anyone wanting results could not get them from your office " they had to call the school, and or go directly to the school. Since results had to be put into the computer and your office was calling itself Election Central, it would stand to reason that your office could provide the results...This request is being made because many schools were not posting the results. School staff was stating that because the election was challenged, the results could not be given to anyone. Please note, I respectfully state, Challenges do not change the election results for a given day. The challenges have to go through a process and then the challengers names will be removed if they lost and or were found to have violated something by their actions. This short term scenario is only a suggestion for a small issue that does have a workable solution."
From J. Alvarez at CPS: "Ms. Lewis, Thank you for your email. If you or anyone copied on this email would like the election results for any school and my staff was not able to provide it, please call or email me directly. Please include the name of the staff member who was not able to provide you with the report in your call or email to me." (jalvarez@cps.k12.il.us)
I'll post this in the comment thread about report card pickup day and LSC elections last week.
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Del.icio.usBut no LSC school-by-school election results.
So where does a citizen go to learn who was elected for the LSCs. Or, for that matter, how many schools still have LSCs?
Imagine, dear and gentle reader, if Chicago decided not to publish the precinct by precinct and ward by ward results of any election for several days after the voting?
Last week our school had a LSC election . It is a large general high school on the South Side with app.2000 students.
The top vote getter had 78 voted. The lowest winner had 46 votes. These are the actual numbers. Why do we bother in the face of such resounding apathy
Check out the real numbers for the elections of the respected elected officials ( State Rep's, Senators in Chicago ) and the results from the LSC elections will be on target especially in light of the
fact that the first response hit the nail on the head
"why would anyone be interesting in voting when the
media does not cover the LSC election or the election results
and they never have, OH excuse me I forgot about when
they gave CURIE such great media coverage when the
LSC voted not to renew a Principals contract, Yeah there
can be some exceptions to the golden rule of Deform ( Reform)
in Chicago Restricted( School District )299.
Even your response is typical, when one can only
wonder how much work you put in to ensure that voters
parents and the community were informed enough to make a choice about the candidates. It does take a lot of work to make people aware that they do have rights and choices
ask Over the Hill, Hillary and Obey me, Mama Obama.
This is always the way it has been and the way it will be because
the people are willfully ignorant and George Carlin made that
remark, not I. You bother if you care and if you don't then you
talk about what others should be doing. Should being the operative
word.
What will you do to change what happened and when will you do it.
Chop Chop times a wasting.
Comments just comments, that's all you can put on a blog. Right
Psalm One
the worst years. Some of the schools I was working
with did the same old things and others being challenged
found new ways to really stop people from getting on
the LSC. The usual electioneering was going on in
the schools. But was really something to behold was
how the schools that were okay with the people who
were running, they did not in any way encourage people
to vote. While other schools who did not want real people
to get on the LSC, they were talking to people every
2 seconds asking them to vote and telling them who
to vote for. I have not given up on LSC's but I now
see that the parents really better wake up because
the only people who are really concerned about our
children being educated are NOT in the schools.
This is not a dismal accounting it is factual, just try
to really get involved in your child's education at
your school and see how they treat you. I don't mean
volunteering because the school likes you and they
know you are going to do whatever they say. I am
talking about if you question anything and all of a sudden
you are PUBLIC ENEMY no. 1. Some parents are not
even concerned with the LSC or any other group they
come up with in the schools. But it is still the same,
you are treated disrespectfully and yet they say they
care about your children. How can you care about my
child and treat me like I am less than human when I
want to be involved in the place where I leave my child?
Who can answer that questions????
the worst years. Some of the schools I was working
with did the same old things and others being challenged
found new ways to really stop people from getting on
the LSC. The usual electioneering was going on in
the schools. But was really something to behold was
how the schools that were okay with the people who
were running, they did not in any way encourage people
to vote. While other schools who did not want real people
to get on the LSC, they were talking to people every
2 seconds asking them to vote and telling them who
to vote for. I have not given up on LSC's but I now
see that the parents really better wake up because
the only people who are really concerned about our
children being educated are NOT in the schools.
This is not a dismal accounting it is factual, just try
to really get involved in your child's education at
your school and see how they treat you. I don't mean
volunteering because the school likes you and they
know you are going to do whatever they say. I am
talking about if you question anything and all of a sudden
you are PUBLIC ENEMY no. 1. Some parents are not
even concerned with the LSC or any other group they
come up with in the schools. But it is still the same,
you are treated disrespectfully and yet they say they
care about your children. How can you care about my
child and treat me like I am less than human when I
want to be involved in the place where I leave my child?
Who can answer that questions????
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