FORUM DISCUSSION

Forum Discussion

Forum Discussion

In the Chicago Public Schools, since 1988, school principals have been chartered (for five year contracts) and discharged by the Local School Council (LSC), an voted into agency body of parents, community constituents, and educators that furthermore accepts each year's school allowance (within some restricts enforced by the centered office). (NRC 1996)

A new account in the Illinois legislature, sponsored by Chicago democrat (and minister) James Meeks, would move the principal-selection power away from the LSC, coming back it to the centered agency (and therefore, the supreme command of the mayor). Some progressive assemblies are deploring that this is ...