making art

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

one thing i love about chicago is that we all go to the currency exchange

the giant park downtown, for example

there are some notable gaps

how does chicago park district decide which parks have basketball courts?

Being 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

they also functioned to stop a rising Black economic class in principals and teachers

Copy of LSC Alpha List of Schools and LSC Specialist as of October 1, 2025.xlsx

in 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

i 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

and 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 😂

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

this 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"

Fulton Space and Grounds Walk, Space Efficiency Review Sherman, Space and Grounds Walk, Space Efficiency Review

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

2022 LSC Election Candidates Map Chicago Public Schools Local School Council Elections Map

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

related

i need to use a different system of measurement - references that aren't to the colonial slave trade and exchange rates

i'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

also when i say state fair, there can be only one

can we have a mini state fair and can we get a deep fryer

if 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