making art

an upton sinclair quote comes to mind

HCMC at "real risk of closing" without additional 1-cent sales tax, Hennepin County claims Hennepin County leaders, along with top brass from Minneapolis' Hennepin County Medical Center, opened the books in front of a panel of Minnesota senators Wednesday.

this is a thing that i have been working on with some Hennepin County officials, trying to find revenue because if HCMC closes it would be catastrophic for the region

i feel strongly that team owners should finance their own stadiums, I have other words for the feds that I shouldn't post online

Montefiore?!

we've been incorporating this into our research workshops with our power analysis and people do seem enthusiastic about trying collectivity

100%. When they built Northside College Prep, Daley said the quiet part out loud - CPS will cater to white, middle class+ Northside families to keep them in the city, equity be damned. And the district has never seriously tried to change course.

new york does a lesser version of what you're describing portland does and i can't believe we still live in a world of 0 in Chicago

although, I sometimes think CPS does this to diffuse anger from litigious parents on the north side but we should capture that anger and redirect it to the State!

ugh, yes

the whims of politicians should be ignored as a rule

From the WTTW Archive | Off the Wall with Keith and the Kids Keith Haring paints a mural with Chicago schoolchildren in Grant Park, a special from 1989

I try to find reasons to show this in class every semester. I wish CPS would find inspiration in these kind of large, participatory projects.

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oooooo i love this! and i love that you show it to your classes, thank you for sharing!!

i think CPS should also make a call to archive student protest art rather than young people tossing the things they make

i currently have a cat trying to derail my plans of finishing work because he's hungry and thinks he should be fed now, not 3 minutes from now and he's incredulous that i'm writing this instead of feeding him...as he knocks everything off the table

a picture of a brown lady drawing henna designs on a window with her finger

that's it for me, my nerd buddies went to happy hour and i have desk work to wrap before art tonight

signing off with a lovely picture that @aoife.bsky.social took of me doing art doodles on a window

10 ayes, 5 nays, 5 abstentions

this motion fails adoption, this person remains employed by the Board

i'm interested to see what material impact Board Member Brown suggests to replace punitive measures with accountability measures

and now we're in closed session

there is a vote to terminate a person's job at the District, i don't have this person's personnel file yet

a few board members indicate they will not be ending careers, especially Black employees and do want accountability

there is not yet a new accountability system and i'm curious to hear more

the vote on adding vendors for after school programs is tabled until next week

a board member suggests that CPS could learn from DFSS

I hope CPS doesn't do this because DFSS has really horrible practices, we should perhaps strive for better and not do so much navel gazing

to be clear, a bunch of the vendors are not new vendors, they are new for the specific opportunity

but like Brighton Park Neighborhood Council already gets millions from CPS, they should be compliant already and it's concerning that many are not

board members are talking about getting data from vendors, they could have been doing this for 14 months

Miguel del Valle pointed to this issue years ago

I'll be interested to see if this Board forces legal to do its job, not holding my breath

member smith has an issue with contractual compliance (correctly)

he's getting closer to challenging CPS legal

everything that needed to be voted upon passed with no dissension

all reports that needed to be accepted are accepted

all legal settlements approved

warning resolutions passed

in previous years, press and activists hammered the Board for being a rubber stamp and it's a lot of 🦗🦗🦗 now

this is not a knock on trades, it's something i wish i had seriously considered when i was younger and now it's really hard as an adult to go back and do this

i really want to know if we are doing right by kids who want to go into trades

Jitu talks about trade opportunities across the district and space utilization in the district

one thing we would have to attend to is that the trades programs that CPS does offer are not leading to young people becoming certified

board member thotakura asks how private fundraising in the communities that can raise money can fix bathrooms

we will have good bathrooms in Lincoln Park and fuck everyone else

friends of fundraising groups should have to send all the money to central to be equitized out or banned altogether

i think CPS officials should only get to use bathrooms in CPS schools

CPS asked people across the District what kids and families would like to see updated and maintained in the schools

the facilities department was surprised! shocked! that people want their bathrooms maintained

chicago has such a bizarre relationship with deprioritizing bathrooms

close all the schools, cps

you have no principles for how students should access school

this conversation would way less odious if it weren't so vacuous and transparently driven by liability, devoid of anything related to a single child

we really do need to talk about what our first principles are with respect to students and services

how many students should be in a classroom? how far should a student have to travel at maximum to get to a school?

i'm tired of servicing the real estate portfolio first

deferred maintenance, risk, insurance and liability are all things that direct student experience

cps has 20 properties for sale, 5 have sold and more will be sold soon

cps is practicing language for when they talk about how community control of closed cps buildings is good, akshually

okay, we're back

capital planning is a huge topic of conversation and one that we let direct what students stay open and which ones close

the Board is especially weak in guiding conversation here and they let CPS consolidate power here, which will impact students

a man with a beard wearing glasses and headphones is sitting in a chair in front of a microphone . Alt: a man with a beard wearing glasses and headphones is sitting in a chair in front of a microphone moving his hands to and fro mouthing the words no no no no no no

and also, i really want public meetings to have a videographer who can do parks and rec style filming

like yes, we do need that pan to the head of cps legal when a board member is apologizing

while i work and talk with other nerds who are also knowledgeable about cps and its meetings, it's like really absurd that cps is nonchalant about aspira closings midyear

cps has never transferred kids mid school year, the acero transfers happened over the summer with no questions about credits