Rich Township Coalition for Better Schools: FOR A NEW ERA IN SCHOOL DISTRICT 227 LEADERSHIP AND RESTORING EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE

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FOR A NEW ERA IN SCHOOL DISTRICT 227 LEADERSHIP AND RESTORING EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE

VOTE ON APRIL 9, 2013. TO REELECT DR. DAVID E. MORGAN FOR SCHOOL BOARD 227.

Experience and Accomplishments: (a) Family: Married with three adult children. (b) Forty years in 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 levelas as our student achievement levels continued to increase. These are examples of what hard work, collaborative action, and strong leadership can accomplish.

Goal: (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.

Positions, Degrees, Certificates, Memberships, and other Accmpishments (1). 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.

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), (4) Superintendent.

Memberships: (1) Christ Universal Temple, Chicago, Il., (2) Rich Township High School District 227 School Board, (3) Trails of Olympia Fields Homeowners Association, (4) Olympia Fields Educational Commission, (5) Chicago Principals Association, (6) Illinois Principals Association. (7) American Association of School Administrators, (8) National Council of Professors of Educational Administration, (9) Phi Delta Kappa, a fraternity in education, (10) National Association of Black School Educators, (11) Chicago State and Loyola University of Chicago Alumni Associations, (12) Chicago Assembly, etc.

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 improvementon on a monthly basis.

Accountability, evaluation, and monitoring should begin with the leadership, the school board. THIS IS THE MISSING ACCOUNTABILITY-EVALUATION-LINK IN SCHOOL DISTRICT'S 227'S CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT MISSING SUCCESS STORY. THIS MISSING LINK, THAT HAS CAUSED OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT TO FAIL MISERABLY WITH ONE SCANDAL AFTER ANOTHER FOR OVER A DECADE,THAT MUST BE RESTORED ON APRIL 9, 2013 IF WE ARE TO MOVE FORWARD AGAIN INTO 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 CONTINUOUS PROGRESS, 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.

ON APRIL 9, 2013, ELECT DR. DAVID E. MORGAN: TRAILBLAZER IN ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE, KEEPING THE COMMUNITY INFORMED, ADVOCATE FOR DEMOCRACY, EQUITY, INTEGRITY, TRANSPARENCY, PARENT AND COMMUNITY 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.