FOR A NEW ERA IN SCHOOL DISTRICT 227 LEADERSHIP AND IN RESTORING EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE
VOTE ON APRIL 9, 2013. TO REELECT DR. DAVID E. MORGAN FOR SCHOOL BOARD 227.
I. Experience and Accomplishments:
Chicago Public Schools and in Higher Education. My life's work has been educational excellence at
both the elementary, high school, and college and university levels. Highly successful and effective
Chicago Public Schools Teacher, Principal, and Central Office Administrator. As a Chicago Public
Schools Principal, the Chicago Consortium on School Leadership at the University of Chicago
awarded our school Significant Improvement awards as we continued to monitor our evaluation system
and test results with follow-up. Took over leadership as principal of a large urban Chicago public
school in Chicago's West Englewood Community with only 14% of students on grade level.
Transformed the school from probation to a high performing model of educational excellence and
best practices In three short years, more than tripling the number of students at grade level as our achievement levels continued to increase. These are examples of what hard work,
student
collaborative action, and strong leadership can accomplish.
II. Goals: (1) To succeed, move ahead, and help our children by restoring focus
on student Achievement,
fairness, tolerance, civility, and full board, parent, and Community participation. Understanding that student achievement is job one in protecting our
academic, instructional, and fiscal integrity. A successful future for our children, community wellness,
the economic values of our homes, and the future of our community is determined by the quality of its
schools. (2) Restore effective board engagement with the full board, parents, and district 227
community we should represent and serve.
III. Positions, Degrees, Certificates, Memberships, and other Accomplishments:
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Positions: Adjunct Professor in Educational Testing and Evaluation, Assistant Professor of
Education and University Supervisor of Student Teachers, Associate Professor of Educational Administration and University Supervisor of Principals and Superintendent Interns, Author of A Time for Healing, Professor in Educational Administration and Graduate Studies Director at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, Illinois.
2. Degrees: B.S. in Elementary Education, B.S. in Secondary Education, Masters in Educational
Administration, Masters in U.S. History, Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Foundations .
Illinois Certificates: (1) Elementary School, (2) High School, (3) Principal (Type 75), )
Superintendent.
IV.. Memberships: (a) Christ Universal Temple, Chicago, Il., (b) Rich Township High School
District 227 School Board, (c) Trails of Olympia Fields Homeowners Association, (d) Olympia Fields
Educational Commission, (e) Chicago Principals Association, (f) Illinois Principals Association. (g)
American Association of School Administrators, (h) National Council of Professors of Educational
Administration, (i) Phi Delta Kappa, a fraternity in education, (j) National Association of Black School
Educators, (k) Chicago State and Loyola University of Chicago Alumni Associations, (l) Chicago
Assembly, etc.
V. Let us Save Our Schools, Our Children, and the Future of Our Community
Elected to School Board 227 in April 2009. Served as Children, parent, and community Advocate
For academic, instructional, and fiscal accountability, trailblazer for transparency, informing the
community, fighting to restore transparency, continuous assessment, evaluation, and holding
first the school board and then the district accountable using student achievement data to
examine bench marks and track school improvement on a monthly basis.
VI. Accountability, evaluation, and monitoring should begin with the leadership, the school
board.
This is themissing accountability-evaluation-link in school district 227's continuous
improvement process missing success story. This missing link, that has caused our school
district to fail miserably with one scandal after another for over a decade, must be restored on
April 9, 2013, if we are ever going to move forward again in the twenty-first century. For this
cause, since April 2009, I have championed open government to inform our community, restore
accountability, civility, equity, fairness, truth, integrity, and open government. As trailblazers
we've advocated for following a regular process to review student achievement data to ensure
continuous improvement, civility, equity, fairness, truth, integrity, and open government. As
trailblazers and reformers, we have advocated for continuous improvement, full board and
parent/democratic participation in our community's internal affairs, and community
empowerment. We have pushed to keep our community informed. An informed public is an
empowered public.
VII. On April 9, 2013 we are asking for your vote in our effort to return our school district to the
crown jewel of Chicago's south suburbs that we knew twenty years ago. The problems of
school failure are man-made and they can be solved by man. Against the odds, we have pushed
to keep our community informed. An informed public is an empowered public.
ON APRIL 9, 2013, ELECT DR. DAVID E. MORGAN: TRAILBLAZER IN ACADEMIC
EXCELLENCE KEEPING THE COMMUNITY INFORMED, ADVOCATE FOR STUDENTS,
DEMOCRACY, EQUITY, INTEGRITY, TRANSPARENCY, PARENT AND COMMUNITY
INVOLVEMENT AND EMPOWERMENT, ACADEMIC, INSTRUCTIONAL, AND FISCAL
ACCOUNTABILITY, CUTTING WASTE AND FOOLISHNES FIGHTING OUR COMMUNITY IN COURT,
DEMOCRATIC AND FULL BOARD AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN THE CONDUCT OF OUR
COMMUNITY'S AFFAIRS, SAVING OUR CHILDREN AND THE FUTURE OF OUR COMMUNITY.
Endorsed by:
Dr. Sidney Okolo, PhD., MAEd., MS.
(a) Family: Married with three adult children. (b) Forty years in
