i could have assumed they were just gaming the numbers but like this is another example of data being pretty much fucking useless compared to like actually just using your eyes and your brains
16.02.2026 04:41 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@marigoldmimsy.bsky.social
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i could have assumed they were just gaming the numbers but like this is another example of data being pretty much fucking useless compared to like actually just using your eyes and your brains
16.02.2026 04:41 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0one thing i love about chicago is that we all go to the currency exchange
15.02.2026 21:24 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0the giant park downtown, for example
15.02.2026 18:03 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0how does chicago park district decide which parks have basketball courts?
15.02.2026 17:58 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Being of a certain age, seeing the potential and hopes of what should have been the Second Reconstruction being crushed in my lifetime has been soul rendering.
But also seeing communities working to fight the onslaught of disenfranchisement, occupation and extraction still gives me hope.
i was just having a conversation with a mom about LSCs and she wants some accountability from CPS but I think interruption is a far more productive course
14.02.2026 22:00 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0they also functioned to stop a rising Black economic class in principals and teachers
14.02.2026 20:39 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0in case you also want to be added local school election boundaries, you could try emailing various office of local school council representatives and ask about it
14.02.2026 19:53 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0i just emailed a bunch of lawyers at CPS and asked them, let's see if i can get another LSC added to my bingo card for election day
14.02.2026 19:47 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0and i am still extremely unclear if there is a local school council at York High School, the school inside Cook County Jail
there is a local school council at Jefferson High School, the school inside the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center
i can't find the voting area for that LSC
and local school council election boundaries do not need to adhere to any Voting Rights Act rules because they aren't real elections, nothing is balanced
the elections are administered by CPS, designed by a consultant who lives in Winnetka
and if conflict arises, CPS legal oversees
one year I did go down to Jones High School to vote and i walked in right behind Byron Sigcho Lopez who shouldn't be able to vote there unless he lived outside his ward
which, he was at the time ๐
i've never voted in all of the LSC elections for all of the schools i am allowed to vote in because it would take me all day
i'd be going from northside learning center at 5600n to South Loop at 1200s and 6 schools in between
maybe this is the year i try it and see what happens
it would be funny if all parents started emailing in to the head of demography who makes up these LSC voting boundaries asking to be put into *more* LSC boundaries
14.02.2026 17:20 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1this is the map for the 2026 LSC elections, cps just hasn't updated the coding to name the website
i told a friend that i could serve on 8 LSCs and his response
"that's ridiculous"
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but, cps is already having an internal conversation about school actions, co-locations and the data they will use to support recommendations
the workflow the demography office engages in means the work starts now, they are thinking now about space usage
what if we thought about class size instead
that's a whole other conversation in which then I'd talk about the one time an LSC sued CPS and correctly lost its lawsuit while trying to do racism
elections are upcoming and you can vote in a million elections if you want to, take a look
i can vote (and serve) on 8 local school councils
every 2 years, local school council members are elected and for the last two decades, i can find press stories about how not enough people run
LSCs generally don't hold much power and haven't for close to 30 years, they capture the imagination on democracy but CPS consolidated power away from them
a picture of Iliana Vargas's calendar Acero Colocation Discussion Lunch LSC Voting District Boundaries (Poe/Westinghouse/Hancock) - BoardReport Discuss Haugan and North River
the demography office sets attendance boundaries in chicago public schools, boundaries are made up
and the same is true for local school council boundaries, especially for non-attendance boundary schools
ever wonder why the LSC boundary for Salazar Elementary is where it is specifically?
Optimize Enrollment - Weekly Meeting December 1, 2025 Karriem Muhammad myjones1@cps.edu William Clark Amanda Smith RoGina Montgomery Sandra Storey Brandon Robinson Simone Moseley Francesca Marchese Gonzalez Sara Mcphee Jake Brekelbaum Delisa Greene Lisa Lynn Jean Dulac Maninderpal Jattue Paige Kaliski Iliana Vargas Julia Buccholz
chicago public schools has a demographer
her name is Iliana Vargas and she is in charge of making student enrollment projections, writing and using the space utilization formula
her department will be important in any school closure conversations, co-locations at cps
she has a weekly meeting
working on a project, screen printing
how much of the original does an artist need to reference, how much can be set aside or discarded even, how much can be extended to keep a lineage and archive
i was just thinking to pick these up again, fortunately and unfortunately
13.02.2026 18:23 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0related
13.02.2026 15:40 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0i need to use a different system of measurement - references that aren't to the colonial slave trade and exchange rates
13.02.2026 15:33 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0i'm having a lot of fun with the language in art this morning
i'm measuring something out and what does it mean that i use the imperial system, reliant on a government exchequer accounting system guided by weights and measure acts defined by colonial extraction
lol yes, we scoured last year for pronto pups and i was reminded there can be only one state fair
13.02.2026 15:12 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0also when i say state fair, there can be only one
13.02.2026 15:00 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0can we have a mini state fair and can we get a deep fryer
13.02.2026 15:00 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0if you can believe it, last night i didn't make enough tension
i broke 4 saw blades that way but now i know how much tension the saw really needs and i bet i don't break anymore blades
without tension, there is no art