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This is Mila Koumpilova, one of the education reporters at Chalkbeat here in Chicago.
Late last week, we had a story about delays in naming a new state-mandated committee that will steer Chicago’s Black Student Success Plan. This week, my colleague Reema Amin has an update about another advisory group required under state law: the new noncitizen advisory board that lawmakers tasked the mayor’s office with creating. In both cases, the reasons for the holdups have been a bit murky, but a mayoral spokesperson told Reema that office hopes to convene the advisory board by this fall.
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Chicago’s school board is supposed to have a noncitizen advisory board. It still doesn’t exist.
Under the state law that created Chicago’s elected school board, the mayor is supposed to name a panel that advises the school board on issues that impact noncitizens.
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