Opinion: Joe Moore Is Wrong On Elected School Board

" I love my alderman, Joe Moore. I’ve worked on his re-election campaigns. Moore has given me a lot of free beers at his Follow Me on Friday events, at which he holds court in various Rogers Park bars and restaurants.

But I have to disagree with Moore on his resistance to an elected school board -- and on his reasons for resisting it. Moore used his position as chair of the Human Rights Committee to block a citywide referendum on school board elections, and is now speaking out against an advisory referendums taking place in 327 precincts next Tuesday.

(Ward Room interviewed a Chicago Public Schools mother advocating an elected school board; we called CPS to request an interview with a school board member who could argue why he shouldn’t have to run for election. We haven’t heard back.)

Here's what Moore told Crain's Chicago Business:  

Interestingly, one guy who has caught some flak on this issue is Ald. Joe Moore, 49th, a normally pro-union liberal who declined to put the elect-the-board referendum on the ballot in his ward. “I have an open mind on the idea,” he says "

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