LSC Summit (held at Chicago's Westinghouse High School, February 15) is now in Labor Beat video
The Labor Beat video "Local School Council Candidate Summit" (Chicago, February 15, 2014) is now available as a Labor Beat video on YouTube at: http://youtu.be/EwGugYLhuRo. The video is also archived at: laborbeat.org. The LSC Summit was held at Chicago's Westinghouse High School, February 15, 2014.
A small part of the audience filled with participants at the February 15, 2014 LSC Summit in Chicago. Substance photo by David Vance.On February 15, 2014, a coalition of community organizations (called GEM, the Grassroots Education Movement) put on an organizing conference to help defenders of Chicago public schools run for their Local School Councils. The Local School Councils Candidate Summit opened with a plenary session with five panelists, then held workshops to discuss a city-wide list of focus points.
Five initial goals were proposed: 1) Democracy in our schools, 2) Full funding for Public Education, 3) Early childhood education for all, 4) More teaching and less testing, and 5) Community-based school transformation.
The Summit also held training sessions on how to run for LSC, and voted unanimously to endorse the original five goals (see above) as well as five more objectives that came out of the discussions in the workshops.
Speakers and interviews include: Zerlina Smith (LSC member, Maria Saucedo Scholastic Academy); Rhoda Rae Gutierrez (Parents 4 Teachers); Adourthus McDowell (LSC Facilitator, Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization); Joy Clendenning (LSC candidate, Kenwood Academy, More Than a Score); Analia Rodriguez (Enlace); Jitu Brown (Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization); Pamela Black (CTU teacher); and Cecile Carroll (Director, Blocks Together).
The video contains wording of the 5 platform points voted on at the plenary, as well as the preliminary wording of 5 additional points that came out of the workshop discussions. Length - 9:24
