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Press conference starting shortly calling on @DonHarmonIL to let the elected school board bill have a floor vote in the Senate like he promised. We'll live tweet it here. 
Labor leaders standing with elected, parents, community orgs and teachers @AFTunion, @J1Ramann, @SigchoFor25, SEIUHC,
@brothajitu of @KOCOmmunity & @J4J_USA: Mayor Lightfoot who said she would be different and support an elected board wants a hybrid that she controls
Democratic governance is taking some hits this week, which makes it more important than ever to end the disenfranchisement of Black and brown voters in Illinois by establishing an elected representative school board for the city of Chicago. #ERSBnow #HB2267
More than 1 in 3 Latinx students in Illinois and almost 1 in 2 Black students attend public school in a district without an elected school board. #ERSBnow
Nearly half of the Illinois’s Black residents cannot elect their school board, but < 15% of white residents cannot. The lack of an elected school board in Chicago disproportionately disenfranchises voters of color. #ERSBnow
