105 ILCS 5/34-3.3
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 105 - SCHOOLS|105 ILCS 5/ - School Code.|Article 34 - Cities Of Over 500,000 Inhabitants - Board Of Education

Sec. 34-3.3.         Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees; powers and duties;  chief operating, fiscal, educational, and purchasing officers.  The General  Assembly finds that an education crisis exists in the Chicago Public Schools  and that a 5-member Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees shall be  established for a 4 year period to bring educational and financial  stability to the system.  The Trustees and their chief executive officer are  empowered and directed to:  (i) increase the quality of educational services in the Chicago Public Schools;  (ii) reduce the cost of non-educational services and implement cost-saving  measures including the privatization of services where deemed appropriate;  (iii) develop a long-term  financial plan that to the maximum extent possible reflects a balanced budget  for each year; (iv) streamline and strengthen the management of the system,  including a responsible school-based budgeting process, in order to refocus  resources on student achievement; (v) ensure ongoing academic improvement in  schools through the establishment of an Academic Accountability Council and a  strong school improvement and recognition process; (vi) enact policies and  procedures that ensure the system runs in an ethical as well as efficient  manner; (vii) establish within 60 days after the effective date of this  amendatory Act of 1995, develop, and implement a process for the selection of a  local school council advisory board for the Trustees in which those individuals  active on Local School Councils serve an advisory role to the Trustees; (viii)  establish any organizational structures, including regional offices, that it  deems necessary to ensure the efficient and effective operation of the system;  and (ix) provide for such other local school council advisory bodies as the  Trustees deem appropriate to function in an advisory capacity to any other  organizations or offices established by the Trustees under clause (viii) of  this Section.(a) Unless otherwise provided in this Article, the Trustees shall have all  powers and duties exercised and performed by the Chicago Board  of Education at the time the terms of its members are abolished as provided in  subsection (a) of Section 34-3.(b) The Mayor shall appoint a chief executive officer who shall be a person  of recognized administrative ability  and management experience, who shall be responsible for the management of  the system, and who shall have all  other powers and duties of the general superintendent as set forth in this  Article 34.  The chief executive officer shall make recommendations to the  Trustees with respect to contracts, policies, and procedures.(c) The chief executive officer shall appoint, with the approval of the  Trustees, a chief operating officer, a chief fiscal officer, a chief  educational officer, and a chief purchasing officer to serve until June  30, 1999.  These officers shall be assigned duties and responsibilities   by the chief executive officer.  The chief operating officer, the chief fiscal  officer, the chief educational officer, and the chief purchasing officer may be  granted authority to hire a specific number of employees to assist in meeting  immediate responsibilities.  The chief executive officer may remove any  officer, subject to the approval of the Trustees. Conditions of employment for  such personnel shall not be subject to the provisions of Section 34-85.(d) Upon the expiration on June 30, 1999 of the terms of office of the  chief executive, operating, fiscal, educational, and purchasing officers  appointed under this Section and the appointment of a new Chicago Board of  Education under subsection (b) of Section 34-3, the board may retain,  reorganize, or abolish any or all of those offices and appoint qualified  successors to fill any of those offices that it does not abolish.(e) The Trustees shall report to the State Superintendent of Education  with respect to its performance, the nature of the reforms which it has  instituted, the effect those reforms have had in the operation of the central  administrative office and in the performance of pupils, staff, and members of  the  local school councils at the several attendance centers within the district,  and such other matters as the Trustees deem necessary to help assure  continuing improvement in the public school system of the district.  The  reports shall be public documents and shall be made annually, beginning with  the school year that commences in 1995 and concluding in the school year  beginning in 1999.    (Source: P.A. 89-15, eff. 5-30-95.)